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Modelocked femtosecond lasers emit tens of thousands of discrete laser lines with. However, the ultrafast modulations induced by the coherent lightmatter interactions usually involve unwanted incoherent responses. A generalization of the kapitzadirac effect enables new ways of controlling free electrons with ultrashort light pulses. Ultrafast optical pulses larrimore the titaniumdoped sapphire ti. Ivan kassal is uq postdoctoral research fellow in the school of mathematics and physics at the university of queensland. Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses nano, pico, femto, attosecond pulses. This course is offered to graduate students and addresses issues regarding ultrafast optics.
Related nonlinearities such as raman scattering and selfsteepening occur when the nonlinearity has a. His current research interests include femtosecond laser micromachining, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and strongfield laser physics. A new pulsestretching technique has enabled ultrafast laserscanning timestretch imaging to be achieved in the important visible region. Front matter opportunities in intense ultrafast lasers. The national academy of sciences was established in 1863 by an act of congress, signed by president lincoln, as a private, nongovernmental institution to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. Hansch, nature416, 233 2002 femtosecond lasers as clockworks. This book provides a basis for researchers and technologists interested in the applications of ultrafast lasers and as such will be relevant to a wide range of readers in both large and small industrial settings as well as materials science and engineering schools.
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Timeresolved spectroscopy femtsecond pulse generation. Ultrafast nonlinear optics robert thomson springer. Ultrafast laser spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that uses ultrashort pulse lasers for the study of dynamics on extremely short time scales attoseconds to nanoseconds. Laser gain and cavity loss spectra, longitudinal mode location, and laser output for multimode laser operation. Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by modelocked oscillators.
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Generation of femtosecond laser pulses via mode locking. Direct control over the electric field waveform of an intense and ultrashort laser pulse has enabled the field of attoscience that depends on electron recollision. Joel yuenzhou is currently the robert j silbey postdoctoral fellow in the center of excitonics at the massachusetts institute of technology. Fundamentals and applications artech house optoelectronics library. The development of higher averagepower diode lasers in the 1980s stimulated again a strong interest in solidstate lasers. Light polarizationcontrolled conversion of ultrafast. Pumped with either our mai tai or tsunami oscillators, the inspire opos feature ultrabroad, gap free tuning range from uv to mid ir wavelengths. Gallmann will give the lecture of ultrafast laser physics during the fall semester. Modelling ultrafast laser ablation article pdf available in journal of physics d applied physics 5019. Jacob krich is an assistant professor in the department of physics at the university of ottawa. Ultrafast laser technology and spectroscopy university of toronto. Ultrafast laser pulse based trigger and control of the spin currents and ultrafast spin waves set the stage for thz spintronics. Ultrafast laser physics is the area of laser physics which is dealing with ultrafast processes in lasers, i. The following phenomena of ultrafast optics and ultrafast laser physics are most relevant in ultrashort pulse lasers the kerr effect leads to selfphase modulation, which is a refractive index change which instantly follows the pulse intensity.
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Physics progress in ultrafast intense laser science. Ultrafast optics electrical engineering and computer. We initiate microexplosions inside fused silica, quartz, sapphire, and other transparent materials using tightly focused 100 fs laser pulses. Ultrafast phenomena in molecular sciences femtosecond. Part of the springer series in optical sciences book series ssos, volume 95. Ultrafast laser physics main content this is a graduate level class with the goal to give also to the nonexpert an efficient starting position to enter into the field of ultrafast laser physics providing all the detailed derivations.
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