Femtosecond Scale Optics

Author : Dong Chin Sun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681174877
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Femtosecond-Scale Optics written by Dong Chin Sun and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A femtosecond laser is a laser which emits optical pulses with a duration well below 1 ps (¬ ultrashort pulses), i.e., in the domain of femtoseconds. It thus also belongs to the category of ultrafast lasers or ultrashort pulse lasers. The generation of such short pulses is nearly always achieved with the technique of passive mode locking. The growth of the femtosecond duration range is certainly one of the most brilliant achievements of laser physics. With progress in ultrashort ultraintense laser technologies the peak power of a laser pulse increases year by year. These new instruments accessible to a large community of researchers revolutionized experiments in nonlinear optics because when laser pulse intensity exceeds or even approaches intra-atomic field strength the new physical picture of light-matter interaction appears. Laser radiation is efficiently transformed into fluxes of charged or neutral particles and the very wide band of electromagnetic emission (from THz up to x-rays) is observed. Ultrashort laser pulses, with durations approaching the timescales of fundamental atomic and molecular processes, are useful in a range of scientific disciplines. They deliver energy so quickly that new processes and observations are possible. Their short duration allows them to probe delicate living structures without destroying them and make material modifications on the micron scale with minimal or precisely controllable heat effects. This field of researches is in rapid progress now.Femtosecond-Scale Optics provides depicts of current developments and original results in some specific areas of this very wide scientific field. This text will be of interest for those specialized in the subject of laser-matter interactions.

Author : Jean-Claude Diels
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080466400
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena written by Jean-Claude Diels and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, Second Edition serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as a manual on designing and constructing femtosecond ("faster than electronics") systems or experiments from scratch. Beyond the simple optical system, the various sources of ultrashort pulses are presented, again with emphasis on the basic concepts and how they apply to the design of particular sources (dye lasers, solid state lasers, semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, and sources based on frequency conversion). Provides an easy to follow guide through "faster than electronics" probing and detection methods THE manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems and experiments Discusses essential technology for applications in micro-machining, femtochemistry, and medical imaging

Author : Jun Ye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387237909
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation and Applications written by Jun Ye and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few years, there has been a convergence between the fields of ultrafast science, nonlinear optics, optical frequency metrology, and precision laser spectroscopy. These fields have been developing largely independently since the birth of the laser, reaching remarkable levels of performance. On the ultrafast frontier, pulses of only a few cycles long have been produced, while in optical spectroscopy, the precision and resolution have reached one part in Although these two achievements appear to be completely disconnected, advances in nonlinear optics provided the essential link between them. The resulting convergence has enabled unprecedented advances in the control of the electric field of the pulses produced by femtosecond mode-locked lasers. The corresponding spectrum consists of a comb of sharp spectral lines with well-defined frequencies. These new techniques and capabilities are generally known as “femtosecond comb technology. ” They have had dramatic impact on the diverse fields of precision measurement and extreme nonlinear optical physics. The historical background for these developments is provided in the Foreword by two of the pioneers of laser spectroscopy, John Hall and Theodor Hänsch. Indeed the developments described in this book were foreshadowed by Hänsch’s early work in the 1970s when he used picosecond pulses to demonstrate the connection between the time and frequency domains in laser spectroscopy. This work complemented the advances in precision laser stabilization developed by Hall.

Author : S A Kozlov
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1782421297
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Femtosecond Optics written by S A Kozlov and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Femtosecond optics involves the study of ultra-short pulses of light. Understanding the behaviour of these light pulses makes it possible to develop ultra-fast lasers with a wide range of applications in such areas as medical imaging, chemical analysis and micro-machining. Written by two leading experts in the field, this book reviews the theory of the interaction of femtosecond light pulses with matter, femtosecond lasers and laser systems, and the principles of femtosecond coherent spectroscopy of impurity amorphous media. reviews the theory of the interaction of femtosecond light pulses with matter Discusses femtosecond lasers and laser systems Considers the principles of femtosecond coherent spectroscopy of impurity amorphous media

Author : Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Akhmanov
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Optics of Femtosecond Laser Pulses written by Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Akhmanov and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blurb & Contents" The wave optics of ultrashort pulses--an area experiencing rapid growth--is closely scrutinized in this completely up-to-date survey, which emphasizes new problems connected with the propagation of the shortest possible pulses. You'll find a presentation of the principles of the Fourier optics of short wave packets propagating in linear dispersive media. Discusses the development of femtosecond laser systems along with the feasibility of controlling pulse shape. Contents: Short Optical Pulses in Linear Dispersive Media. Self-action of Optical Pulses; Self-modulation, Self-compression, Solitons, and Instabilities. Parametric Interactions and Coherent Scattering of Femtosecond Pulses. Fast Phase Control. Compression and Shaping of Optical Pulses. Optical Solitons. Picosecond and Femtosecond Pulses in Optical Information Systems.

Author : Lorenzo Pattelli
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8864537805
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaging light transport at the femtosecond scale written by Lorenzo Pattelli and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hannaford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038723294X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy written by Peter Hannaford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The embryonic development of femtoscience stems from advances made in the generation of ultrashort laser pulses. Beginning with mode-locking of glass lasers in the 1960s, the development of dye lasers brought the pulse width down from picoseconds to femtoseconds. The breakthrough in solid state laser pulse generation provided the current reliable table-top laser systems capable of average power of about 1 watt, and peak power density of easily watts per square centimeter, with pulse widths in the range of four to eight femtoseconds. Pulses with peak power density reaching watts per square centimeter have been achieved in laboratory settings and, more recently, pulses of sub-femtosecond duration have been successfully generated. As concepts and methodologies have evolved over the past two decades, the realm of ultrafast science has become vast and exciting and has impacted many areas of chemistry, biology and physics, and other fields such as materials science, electrical engineering, and optical communication. In molecular science the explosive growth of this research is for fundamental reasons. In femtochemistry and femtobiology chemical bonds form and break on the femtosecond time scale, and on this scale of time we can freeze the transition states at configurations never before seen. Even for n- reactive physical changes one is observing the most elementary of molecular processes. On a time scale shorter than the vibrational and rotational periods the ensemble behaves coherently as a single-molecule trajectory.

Author : Claude Rulliere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387266747
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Femtosecond Laser Pulses written by Claude Rulliere and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-27 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduates starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student is introduced to short and ultrashort laser pulses, and learns how to generate, manipulate, and measure them. Spectroscopic implications are also discussed. The second edition has been completely revised and includes two new chapters on some of the most promising and fast-developing applications in ultrafast phenomena: coherent control and attosecond pulses.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Femtosecond Phenomena and Nonlinear Optics III written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Claude Diels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780122154928
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena written by Jean-Claude Diels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first coherent, tutorial graduate level text/reference books on ultrashort laser phenomena, this book presents an introduction to the phenomena and explains how it can be used to help examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. Written for students as well as experimental researchers in physics, engineering, biology, or chemistry, the text provides the necessary background and tools to design experiments involving ultrashort pulses. All aspects of design are covered: from the construction of the source, to the amplifier, to the diagnostic method, and finally, to the design of the experiment in any field. The text reviews the basic properties of light propagation through matter and provides a study of simple optical components with emphasis on the important phenomena that occur with pulses of duration less than 10-12s (or less than 0.3 mm in length). The reader is also provided with the fundamental concepts (as well as numerical data through numerous tables), necessary to design optical systems capable of manipulating such pulses. Beyond the simple optical system, the various types of sources of ultrashort pulses are presented, again with emphasis on the basic concepts and how they apply to the design of particular sources (dye lasers, solid state lasers, semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, and sources based on frequency conversion). This book is addressed as much to the physicist as to the engineer, chemist, biologist, student, or experienced researcher interested in the application of ultrashort light pulses to the study of ultrafast event in this field. Key Features * Provides an easy to follow guide through "faster than electronics" probing and detection methods * Describes the intriguing aspects of optics when applied to ultrashort pulses * Offers a systematic and comprehensive lecture through all the uncommon and unexpected aspects of short pulse propagation through linear and nonlinear media * Serves as a manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems or experiments "from scratch" * Presents a course that combined experimental techniques and theoretical backgrounds, by authors who have two decades of experience in both theoretical and experimental aspects of ultrafast phenomena * Bridges the gap between an authored work and a textbook