This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Ladan arissian is assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university of new mexico, usa. 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. Alfano, editor, the supercontinuum laser source, springerverlag 1989 assessment project on selected topic on ultrafast pulse phenomena 40%. 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. Femtosecond laser micromachining has excited vivid attention in various industrial fields and in medicine owing to the advantages of ultrashort laser pulses compared to long pulse treatment. 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. Therefore they are often reffered to as femtosecond or fs pulses. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental. 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. A single isolated pulse in time domain is constructed if the frequency di. Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by modelocked oscillators. Ultrashort laser pulses ii relative importance of spectrum and spectral phase. 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.
First it is important to acknowledge the relationship between spectral width and pulse. 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. Diels, ultrashort laser pulse phenomena rulliere, femtosecond laser. Modelocked pulses from midinfrared quantum cascade. Electronic process in biological molecules can also be.
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. 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. 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 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. In our experiments, we obtain a maximum shift of the cavity resonance relative to the cavity linewidth of 20%. He coauthored with wolfgang rudolph the graduate textbook ultrashort laser pulse phenomena. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as a manual on. Nicholson,2 and mansoor sheikbahae 1 1department of physics and astronomy, optical science and engineering, university of new mexico, 800 yale blvd. When glass is irradiated by infrared cw laser with normal intensity, no laser energy is absorbed in the glass, since the band.
Ultrashort laser pulses, volume 60 of topics in applied phys. Starting in basic research with studies in the lightmatterinteraction on atoms and. Fundamentals, techniques and applications on a femtosecond time scale and with ladan arrisian the book, lasers. Fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale jeanclaude diels and wolfgang rudolph auth. Pulse broadening or compression by propagation through glass is calculated for the pulse shapes determined from the. 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.
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. Highvoltage electrical discharges induced by an ultrashort pulse uv laser system. A numerical method is used to analyze the more complex pulse shapes and chirps that can be produced by the laser. Gratingeliminated nononsense observation of ultrafast incident laser light efields. Optimal alloptical switching of a microcavity resonance.
Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this technology can. 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. A newcomers guide to ultrashort pulse shaping and characterization pdf. In optics, femtosecond pulse shaping refers to manipulations with temporal profile of an ultrashort laser pulse. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena ultrashort laser pulse phenomena diels, jeanclaude. Liu, stability of pulse emission and enhancement of intracavity secondharmonic generation in selfmodelocked quantum cascade lasers, ieee j. Optical catalog, pdf file listing optical properties of many glass types.
Diels, femtosecond dye lasers, in dye laser principles, f. In the timedomain, these lasers output uniformly spaced ultrashort optical pulse trains with duration from a subpicosecond down to a few optical cycles. The ultrashort pulse duration is favored in ultrafastphenomena resolving applications in chemistry, biology, and physics 2 3 4. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena second edition jeanclaude diels and wolfgang rudolph. 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. A pulse s tbp will always be greater than the theoretical minimum given by the uncertainty principle for the appropriate width definition. Ultrashort pulse laser interaction with dielectrics and. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, second edition serves as an introduction to. Ultrafast optics zenghu chang fundamentals of attosecond optics andrew weiner ultrafast optics j. Ultrashort laser pulses applications 665 by the ultrashort pulse beaurepaire et al. 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. 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.
Pdf on jan 1, 1996, jeanclaude diels and others published ultrashort laser pulse phenomena fundamentals, techniques, and applications an a. Since the laser pulse represents a propagating electromagnetic wave packet the dc component of its spectrum vanishes. Wolfgang rudolph an extensive revision of the authoritative reference on ultrashort laser phenomena. Measuring the pulse duration of an ultrashort femtosecond. Fundamentals, techniques and applications on a femtosecond time scale 2006. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, optical engineering 10. In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is of the. It uses the compression system itself as a diagnostic tool, thereby making unnecessary the use of complementary diagnostic tools. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available. Professor diels has published several books and book chapters including ultrashort laser pulse phenomenon. Pdf file listing optical properties of many glass types. Purchase ultrashort laser pulse phenomena 2nd edition.
Nonlinear optical effects that would alter the frequency spectrum of an ultrashort pulse are not considered. In this contribution some basic properties of femtosecond laser pulses are summarized. Includes a model of the laser cavity below the diagram. Ultrashort pulse laser uspl is a useful energy source for internal modification of glass due to its unique absorption process. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena by jeanclaude diels. We used this technique to compress and characterize 7. 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. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena 2nd edition elsevier. 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. Rudolph, ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, elsevier 2006. The power and precision of light, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the laser, and published 5 book chapters. The applications of ultrashort laser pulses derive mainly from two characteristics of such pulses. Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, third edition optics and photonics series.
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