Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Generation and Applications

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Kaiser (auth.), Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Kaiser (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 501
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics 60
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second edition in paperback provides an up-to-date review of the state of the art in different generation processes for ultrashort laser pulses. Inaddition, extensive applications in a wide range of fields - in physics,engineering, chemistry, and biology - are discussed: Eight chapters dealwith the following topics: -the generation of picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses -nonlinear wave interactions - new investigations in solid-state physics - recent progress in optoelectronics - advances in coherent material excitations - ultrafast vibrational lifetimes and energy redistribution in liquids - new observations of chemical reactions in the liquid state - the primary processes of important biological systems The book is essential reading for scientists and engineers who want to know what is going on in this rapidly advancing field. It should also interest graduate students and others who seek an introduction to laserpulses.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-4
Generation of ultrashort optical pulses....Pages 5-34
Optical nonlinearities with ultrashort pulses....Pages 35-112
Ultrashort interactions in solids....Pages 113-182
Ultrafast Optoelectronics....Pages 183-233
Ultrafast coherent spectroscopy....Pages 235-277
Ultrashort intramolecular and intermolecular vibrational energy transfer of polyatomic molecules in liquids....Pages 279-317
Ultrafast chemical reactions in the liquid state....Pages 319-356
Biological processes studied by ultrafast laser techniques....Pages 357-417
Addendum A: Generation of ultrashort optical pulses....Pages 419-420
Addendum B: Optical nonlinearities with ultrashort pulses....Pages 421-435
Addendum C: Ultrashort interactions in solids....Pages 437-444
Addendum D: Ultrafast optoelectronics....Pages 445-450
Addendum E: Ultrafast coherent spectroscopy....Pages 451-456
Addendum F: Ultrashort intramolecular and intermolecular vibrational energy transfer of polyatomic molecules in liquids....Pages 457-459
Addendum G: Ultrafast chemical reactions in the liquid state....Pages 461-469
Addendum H: Biological processes studied by ultrafast laser techniques, an update of chapter 9....Pages 471-483

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics; Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics; Physical Chemistry; Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices