Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses, medical imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining the principles with experimental techniques, the book serves as a guide to designing and constructing femtosecond systems.

The second edition has been updated and expanded. Diagnostic techniques and applications involving sensors, mode-locked lasers, and imaging have been fully revised to include current technologies.

Written in a tutorial style, this book is suitable for opticians, spectroscopes, optical imaging, photochemistry, and ultrafast science and engineering.

* Provides an easy to follow guide through "faster than electronics" probing and detection methods
* THE manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems and experiments
* Discusses essential technology for micro-machining applications, femtochemistry, and medical imaging

1. Fundamentals
2. Femtosecond Optics
3. Light-Matter Interaction
4. Phenomena coherent
5. Ultrashort Sources
6. Amplifiers
7. Pulse Shaping
8. Pulse Diagnostics
9. Measurement Techniques of Fs Spectroscopy
10. Examples of Ultrafast Processes in Matter
11. Generation of Extreme Wavelengths
12. Miscellaneous Applications
Appendices
Bibliography
index