Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications on a Femtosecond Time Scale (Optics & Photonics Series) - Hardcover

Diels, Jean-Claude; Rudolph, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122154924 ISBN 13: 9780122154928

Publisher: Academic Press, 1996

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A Volume in the OPTICS AND PHOTONICS Series (formerly Quantum Electronics)

One of the first coherent graduate level text/reference books on ultrashort laser phenomena, this book represents an introduction to the phenomena. It 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 background and tools necessary for designing experiments involving ultrashort pulses. All aspects of design are covered, from the construction of the source, to the amplifier, to the diagnostic method, to the design of the experiment in any modern field of experimental science.

About the Author:

Wolfgang Rudolph is a researcher at the Office for Social Research (Buro fur Sozialforschung, Kassel, Germany). His main areas of research concern the development of works councils, employee representation in small companies and regional development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0122154924
• ISBN 13: 9780122154928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 581
• Editor: Liao Paul F., Kelley Paul