Femtosecond Laser Pulses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Laser Basics

   • C. Hirlimann

   Pages 1-23

3. Pulsed Optics

   • C. Hirlimann

   Pages 25-56

4. Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Mode-Locking

   • A. Ducasse, C. Rullière, B. Couillaud

   Pages 57-87

5. Further Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses

   • C. Hirlimann

   Pages 89-123

6. Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers

   • T. Amand, X. Marie

   Pages 125-174

7. How to Manipulate and Change the Characteristics of Laser Pulses

   • F. Salin

   Pages 175-194

8. How to Measure the Characteristics of Laser Pulses

   • L. Sarger, J. Oberlé

   Pages 195-222

9. Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Sample Dynamics

   • C. Rullière, T. Amand, X. Marie

   Pages 223-281

10. Coherent Effects in Femtosecond Spectroscopy: A Simple Picture Using the Bloch Equation

    • M. Joffre

    Pages 283-308

11. Terahertz Femtosecond Pulses

    • A. Bonvalet, M. Joffre

    Pages 309-331

12. Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules and Solids

    • T. Amand, V. Blanchet, B. Girard, X. Marie

    Pages 333-394

13. Attosecond Pulses

    • E. Constant, E. Mével

    Pages 395-422

14. Back Matter

    Pages 423-426

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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.

• basics
• laser
• optics
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy

From the reviews:

"The book is mainly written for the physically experienced scientists working in the field of short pulses or for those physicists who start to work in this field but are experienced in comparable fields of their science. The book is well-suited for this purpose, since it introduces the related areas of science in a comprehensive and clearly laid out manner … It is a pleasure to read and a scientific profit to study …" Optics & Laser Technology

"I use femtosecond lasers in my graduate work, and I found this book an excellent source of review material in preparing for my oral examinations. It is not very detailed or mathematical, but has excellent phenomenonological discussions of a variety of laser properties and techniques … I found particularly useful the sections on amplification, semiconductor lasers, and ultrashort diagnostics." Eric Landahl, Graduate Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Centre de Physique Moleéculaire Optique et Hertzienne (CPMOH), Université Bordeaux 1, Talence Cedex, France

  Claude Rullière

• Centre d’Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques d’Aquitarine, Commissariat á l’Energie Aromique (CEA), Le Barp, France

  Claude Rullière

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