Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments [Hardcover]

Claude Rullière (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 3540636633 | ISBN-13: 978-3540636632 | Edition: 1

This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduate students starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student learns how to generate short and ultrashort laser pulses, how to manipulate them, and how to measure them. Finally, spectroscopic implications are discussed. This rounded text gives the student an up-to-date introduction to one of the most exciting fields in laser physics.

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...this recent book proved most enjoyable...the editor has done an excellent job in compiling a set of well connected contributions. The clue to this can be found in the preface which explains that the book is based on lecture notes generated fo an annual training course...this lucid book as basic text useful for both students and teachers...(The Australian&New Zealand Physicist 36 (1999) 1, p. 35)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 309 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540636633
• ISBN-13: 978-3540636632
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,813,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This short book is an excellent overview, March 26, 2000

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Eric Landahl (USA) - See all my reviews

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly good but not excellent, August 16, 2006

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Vahit Sametoglu (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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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.