Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Principles and Experiments

Buch | Hardcover

426 Seiten

2004 | 2nd ed. 2005
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-01769-3 (ISBN)

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This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after pub- cation of the ?rst edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application ?elds have become mature. It is necessary to take into account these new developments. Two main topics merged during this period that support important scienti?c activities: attosecond pulses are now gen- ated in the X-UV spectral domain, and coherent control of chemical events is now possible by tailoring the shape of femtosecond pulses. To update this advanced textbook, it was necessary to introduce these ?elds; two new ch- ters are in this second edition: “Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids”(Chap.11)and“AttosecondPulses”(Chap.12)withwell-documented references. Some changes, addenda, and new references are introduced in the ?rst edition’s ten original chapters to take into account new developments and updatethisadvancedtextbookwhichistheresultofascienti?cadventurethat started in 1991. At that time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scienti?c community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education of scientists who use femtosecond pulses as a research tool and who are not specialists in lasers or even in optics.

Laser Basics.- Pulsed Optics.- Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Mode-Locking.- Further Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers.- How to Manipulate and Change the Characteristics of Laser Pulses.- How to Measure the Characteristics of Laser Pulses.- Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Sample Dynamics.- Coherent Effects in Femtosecond Spectroscopy: A Simple Picture Using the Bloch Equation.- Terahertz Femtosecond Pulses.- Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules and Solids.- Attosecond Pulses.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2004
Reihe/Serie	Advanced Texts in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 426 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-387-01769-0 / 0387017690
ISBN-13	978-0-387-01769-3 / 9780387017693
Zustand	Neuware