Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and ExperimentsClaude Rulliere This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after pub- cation of the ?rst edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application ?elds have become mature. It is necessary to take into account these new developments. Two main topics merged during this period that support important scienti?c activities: attosecond pulses are now gen- ated in the X-UV spectral domain, and coherent control of chemical events is now possible by tailoring the shape of femtosecond pulses. To update this advanced textbook, it was necessary to introduce these ?elds; two new ch- ters are in this second edition: “Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids”(Chap.11)and“AttosecondPulses”(Chap.12)withwell-documented references. Some changes, addenda, and new references are introduced in the ?rst edition’s ten original chapters to take into account new developments and updatethisadvancedtextbookwhichistheresultofascienti?cadventurethat started in 1991. At that time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scienti?c community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education of scientists who use femtosecond pulses as a research tool and who are not specialists in lasers or even in optics. |
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absorption amplifying medium amplitude Appl atoms attosecond attosecond pulses autocorrelation band bandwidth beam cavity length Chem chirp coherent control continuum corresponding crystal delay density dephasing detector diode domain dye laser dynamics effect electric field electronic emitted energy excitation pulse exciton experimental setup femtosecond Fourier transform function gain medium Gaussian group velocity dispersion high-order harmonic IEEE induced intensity interaction interference ionization Kerr laser cavity laser pulse Lett light pulses linear measured mirrors mode-locked modes modulation molecules nonlinear optical obtained optical pulses optical rectification oscillations output parameters perturbation phase photons Phys picosecond polarization population population inversion probe propagation pulse duration pump pulse pump-probe Q-switching quantum Raman refraction regime repetition rate resonance sample saturable absorber SC lasers semiconductor short pulses shown in Fig signal spectroscopy spectrum stimulated emission technique temporal Ti:sapphire time-resolved transition two-photon typical ultrashort pulses w₁ wave packet wavelength