Ultrashort pulse laser uspl is a useful energy source for internal modification of glass due to its unique absorption process. Ultrashort laser pulses applications 665 by the ultrashort pulse beaurepaire et al. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as a manual on. Electronic process in biological molecules can also be. Irena drevensek olenik abstract ultrashort laser pulses are electromagnetic pulses with a spatial duration of only a few light wavelengths and with a time duration of tipically a few femtoseconds 10. A newcomers guide to ultrashort pulse shaping and characterization pdf. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale second edition jeanclaude diels department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm wolfgang rudolph department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm amsterdam boston. It uses the compression system itself as a diagnostic tool, thereby making unnecessary the use of complementary diagnostic tools. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications an a femtosecond time scale second edition jeanclaude diels department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm wolfgang rudolph department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm amsterdam boston. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, third edition optics and photonics series currently unavailable. In addition to ultrashort pulse duration, ultrashort pulses have a broad spectrum, a high peak intensity and can form pulse trains at a high repetition rate. Highvoltage electrical discharges induced by an ultrashort pulse uv laser system. Since the laser pulse represents a propagating electromagnetic wave packet the dc component of its spectrum vanishes. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale jeanclaude diels department of physics and astronomy the university of new mexico albuquerque, new mexico wolfgang rudolph department of physics and astronomy the university of new mexico albuquerque, new mexico academic press.
Professor diels has published several books and book chapters including ultrashort laser pulse phenomenon. In this contribution some basic properties of femtosecond laser pulses are summarized. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, third edition balances theory and applications of ultrafast optical pulses, with detailed descriptions of experimental configurations and surveys of relevant data from the literature, demonstrating how the technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is of the order of a picosecond or less. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as. Pulse broadening or compression by propagation through glass is calculated for the pulse shapes determined from the. The applications of ultrashort laser pulses derive mainly from two characteristics of such pulses. Nonlinear optical effects that would alter the frequency spectrum of an ultrashort pulse are not considered. Starting in basic research with studies in the lightmatterinteraction on atoms and. Optical catalog, pdf file listing optical properties of many glass types. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, 2e serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as a manual on designing and constructing femtosecond faster than electronics systems or experiments from scratch.
Rudolph, ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, elsevier 2006. Amplification of ultrashort pulses almost always requires the technique of chirped pulse. Ultrashort in time is also ultrashort in space ultrafast laser pulsed laser beam 30 microns for a 100 fs pulse a few mm 3 meters laser. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, second edition serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. A single isolated pulse in time domain is constructed if the frequency di. A numerical method is used to analyze the more complex pulse shapes and chirps that can be produced by the laser.
Ultrashort laser pulse characterization using modified. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena by jeanclaude diels. Ultrafast optics zenghu chang fundamentals of attosecond optics andrew weiner ultrafast optics j. In optics, femtosecond pulse shaping refers to manipulations with temporal profile of an ultrashort laser pulse. Pdf file listing optical properties of many glass types. Measuring the pulse duration of an ultrashort femtosecond. Ladan arissian is assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university of new mexico, usa. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available. Osa control and measurement of ultrashort pulse shapes. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, second edition serves as an introduction to. Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by modelocked oscillators. The power and precision of light, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the laser, and published 5 book chapters. One of the first coherent, tutorial graduate level textreference books on ultrashort laser phenomena, this book presents an introduction to the phenomena and explains how it can be used to help examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, third edition optics and photonics series.
In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is of the. Includes a model of the laser cavity below the diagram. Wolfgang rudolph an extensive revision of the authoritative reference on ultrashort laser phenomena. Fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale jeanclaude diels and wolfgang rudolph auth. We used this technique to compress and characterize 7. Fundamentals, techniques and applications on a femtosecond time scale and with ladan arrisian the book, lasers. Measuring the pulse duration is crucial in making the correct calculations for these processes, confirming the laser s functionality, and opening new avenues for even shorter pulses that can be used to better study events in these timescales. Fundamentals, techniques and applications on a femtosecond time scale 2006. Diels, femtosecond dye lasers, in dye laser principles, f. Rulliere, editor, femtosecond laser pulses, springer, 1998 robert r. He coauthored with wolfgang rudolph the graduate textbook ultrashort laser pulse phenomena. Lab course fp iii ultrashort, intense laser pulses vers.
Ultrashort laser pulse characterization using modified spectrum autointerferometric correlation mosaic daniel a. Ultrashort pulse laser interaction with dielectrics and. The ultrashort pulse duration is favored in ultrafastphenomena resolving applications in chemistry, biology, and physics 2 3 4. Ultrashort laser pulses ii relative importance of spectrum and spectral phase. Purchase ultrashort laser pulse phenomena 2nd edition. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena second edition jeanclaude diels and wolfgang rudolph. In the timedomain, these lasers output uniformly spaced ultrashort optical pulse trains with duration from a subpicosecond down to a few optical cycles.
Pdf on jan 1, 1996, jeanclaude diels and others published ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications an a. One of the first coherent, tutorial graduate level textreference books on ultrashort laser phenomena, this book presents an introduction to the phenomena and explains how it can be used to help examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. Optimal alloptical switching of a microcavity resonance. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale second edition jeanclaude diels department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm wolfgang rudolph department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm amsterdam boston heidelberg london. A pulse s tbp will always be greater than the theoretical minimum given by the uncertainty principle for the appropriate width definition. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental. Ultrashort laser pulses, volume 60 of topics in applied phys. Nicholson,2 and mansoor sheikbahae 1 1department of physics and astronomy, optical science and engineering, university of new mexico, 800 yale blvd. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena ultrashort laser pulse phenomena diels, jeanclaude.
First it is important to acknowledge the relationship between spectral width and pulse. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena 2nd edition elsevier. When glass is irradiated by infrared cw laser with normal intensity, no laser energy is absorbed in the glass, since the band. Modelocked pulses from midinfrared quantum cascade. Liu, stability of pulse emission and enhancement of intracavity secondharmonic generation in selfmodelocked quantum cascade lasers, ieee j. One of the first coherent, tutorial graduate level textreference books on ultrashort laser phenomena, this book presents an introduction to the phenomena and explains how it can be used to help examine problems in areas such as. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this technology can. Therefore they are often reffered to as femtosecond or fs pulses. The chapter ends with a paragraph on the powerful technique of pulse shaping which can be used to create complex shaped ultrashort laser pulses with respect to phase. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications an a femtosecond time scale second edition jeanclaude diels department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm wolfgang rudolph department of physics and astronomy university of new mexico albuquerque, nm amsterdam boston heidelberg london. A series of examples demonstrates the control of this laser over various pulse shapes and frequency modulations. These are mainly the reduction of the laser fluence needed to induce ablation and the improvement of the contour sharpness of the laser generated structures. In our experiments, we obtain a maximum shift of the cavity resonance relative to the cavity linewidth of 20%.
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