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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"The book is mainly written for the physically experienced scientists working in the field of short pulses or for those physicists who start to work in this field but are experienced in comparable fields of their science. The book is well-suited for this purpose, since it introduces the related areas of science in a comprehensive and clearly laid out manner … It is a pleasure to read and a scientific profit to study …" Optics & Laser Technology
"I use femtosecond lasers in my graduate work, and I found this book an excellent source of review material in preparing for my oral examinations. It is not very detailed or mathematical, but has excellent phenomenonological discussions of a variety of laser properties and techniques … I found particularly useful the sections on amplification, semiconductor lasers, and ultrashort diagnostics." Eric Landahl, Graduate Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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This short book is an excellent overview,
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This review is from: Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments (Hardcover)
I use femtosecond lasers in my graduate work, and I found this book an excellent source of review material in preparing for my oral examinations. It is not very detailed or mathematical, but has excellent phenomenonological discussions of a variety of laser properties and techniques. It is also handy because it is fairly recent. I found particularly useful the sections on amplification, semiconductor lasers, and ultrashort diagnostics. This book is not a comprehensive guide to building and using an ultrashort pulse laser system because it lacks so much detail. However, the equations are explained very well, and the references seem fairly comprehensive. The book is also completely missing a discussion of fiber laser and ultrashort pulse propogation in fibers. The section on nonlinear ultrashort optics is also far too brief.
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This review is from: Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments (Advanced Texts in Physics) (Hardcover)
The second edition of this book is revised and enriched with new and hot materials. The concepts of "coherent control" and "attosecond pulses" are added as they become more and more significant.
The first 3 chapters of the books do not seem very useful. Although the authors tried their best, especially the discussion of "mode-locking" is not as clearly stated as Demtroder's "Laser Spectroscopy". More vivid, illustrative and tangible examples would be very useful. The rest of the book can be considered good and in my opinion this books does not deserve more than 4 stars.
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Lasers are the basic building block of the technologies for the generation of short light pulses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporal coherent control, attosecond pulses, terahertz generator, wave packet interferences, terahertz pulses, photoconductive switching, optical compressor, opening pulse, probe continuum, terahertz beam, polarization transient, amplifying medium, group velocity difference, negative group velocity dispersion, ultrashort light pulses, prism compressor, dye pulse, excited sample, saturable absorber, optical rectification, diabatic states, positive chirp, perturbed sample, negative chirp, transient polarization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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temporal coherent control, attosecond pulses, terahertz generator, wave packet interferences, terahertz pulses, photoconductive switching, optical compressor, opening pulse, probe continuum, terahertz beam, polarization transient, amplifying medium, group velocity difference, negative group velocity dispersion, ultrashort light pulses, prism compressor, dye pulse, excited sample, saturable absorber, optical rectification, diabatic states, positive chirp, perturbed sample, negative chirp, transient polarization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Quantum Electron, American Institute of Physics, Springer Ser, Academic Press, Optics Lett, Example of Application, Mill Valley, Sample Detector, University Science Books, Further Reading New!
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