Format:
1 online resource (675 pages)
Edition:
Second edition
ISBN:
9780080466408
Series Statement:
Optics and photonics
Content:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Preface to the First Edition -- Why Ultrashort Pulse Phenomena? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1 Fundamentals -- 1.1. CHARACTERISTICS OF FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSES -- 1.1.1. Complex Representation of the Electric Field -- 1.1.2. Power, Energy, and Related Quantities -- 1.1.3. Pulse Duration and Spectral Width -- 1.1.4. Wigner Distribution, Second-Order Moments, Uncertainty Relations -- 1.2. PULSE PROPAGATION -- 1.2.1. The Reduced Wave Equation -- 1.2.2. Retarded Frame of Reference -- 1.2.3. Dispersion -- 1.2.4. Gaussian Pulse Propagation -- 1.2.5. Complex Dielectric Constant -- 1.3. INTERACTION OF LIGHT PULSES WITH LINEAR OPTICAL ELEMENTS -- 1.4. GENERATION OF PHASE MODULATION -- 1.5. BEAM PROPAGATION -- 1.5.1. General -- 1.5.2. Analogy between Pulse and Beam Propagation -- 1.5.3. Analogy between Spatial and Temporal Imaging -- 1.6. NUMERICAL MODELING OF PULSE PROPAGATION -- 1.7. SPACE-TIME EFFECTS -- 1.8. PROBLEMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 Femtosecond Optics -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. WHITE LIGHT AND SHORT PULSE INTERFEROMETRY -- 2.3. DISPERSION OF INTERFEROMETRIC STRUCTURES -- 2.3.1. Mirror Dispersion -- 2.3.2. Fabry-Perot and Gires-Tournois Interferometer -- 2.3.3. Chirped Mirrors -- 2.4. FOCUSING ELEMENTS -- 2.4.1. Singlet Lenses -- 2.4.2. Space-Time Distribution of the Pulse Intensity at the Focus of a Lens -- 2.4.3. Achromatic Doublets -- 2.4.4. Focusing Mirrors -- 2.5. ELEMENTS WITH ANGULAR DISPERSION -- 2.5.1. Introduction -- 2.5.2. Tilting of Pulse Fronts -- 2.5.3. GVD through Angular Dispersion-General -- 2.5.4. GVD of a Cavity Containing a Single Prism -- 2.5.5. Group Velocity Control with Pairs of Prisms -- 2.5.6. GVD Introduced by Gratings -- 2.5.7. Grating Pairs for Pulse Compressors -- 2.5.8. Combination of Focusing and Angular Dispersive Elements.
Content:
Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, 2e 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780122154935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Diels, Jean-Claude Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena Amsterdam : Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier, 2006 ISBN 0122154932
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780122154935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Diels, Jean-Claude Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena Amsterdam : Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier, 2006 ISBN 0122154932
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780122154935
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
,
Medicine
Keywords:
Ultrakurzer Lichtimpuls
;
Femtosekundenbereich
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Ultrakurzzeitlaser
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