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Exploring the World with the Laser

Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th birthday

  • Presents an overview of the state of the art in ultrafast laser phenomena, laser spectroscopy and quantum optics
  • Illustrates advances in laser physics and quantum technology
  • Dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch by his collaborators

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Table of contents (44 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Unexpectedly Large Difference of the Electron Density at the Nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 Fine-Structure Doublet of Ca+

    • C. Shi, F. Gebert, C. Gorges, S. Kaufmann, W. Nörtershäuser, B. K. Sahoo et al.
    Pages 1-19
  3. New Avenues for Matter-Wave-Enhanced Spectroscopy

    • Jonas Rodewald, Philipp Haslinger, Nadine Dörre, Benjamin A. Stickler, Armin Shayeghi, Klaus Hornberger et al.
    Pages 21-34
  4. Yb Fiber Amplifier at 972.5 nm with Frequency Quadrupling to 243.1 nm

    • Z. Burkley, C. Rasor, S. F. Cooper, A. D. Brandt, D. C. Yost
    Pages 35-44
  5. Measuring and Imaging Nanomechanical Motion with Laser Light

    • Andreas Barg, Yeghishe Tsaturyan, Erik Belhage, William H. P. Nielsen, Christoffer B. Møller, Albert Schliesser
    Pages 71-85
  6. Quantum Regime of a Free-Electron Laser: Relativistic Approach

    • Peter Kling, Roland Sauerbrey, Paul Preiss, Enno Giese, Rainer Endrich, Wolfgang P. Schleich
    Pages 87-115
  7. Playing Tricks to Ions

    • Dietrich Leibfried
    Pages 117-128
  8. Atomic “Bomb Testing”: The Elitzur–Vaidman Experiment Violates the Leggett–Garg Inequality

    • Carsten Robens, Wolfgang Alt, Clive Emary, Dieter Meschede, Andrea Alberti
    Pages 141-157
  9. Frequency-Comb Referenced Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Be+ for Nuclear Structure Investigations and Many-Body QED Tests

    • A. Krieger, W. Nörtershäuser, Ch. Geppert, K. Blaum, M. L. Bissell, N. Frömmgen et al.
    Pages 175-205
  10. High-Accuracy Deep-UV Ramsey-comb Spectroscopy in Krypton

    • Sandrine Galtier, Robert K. Altmann, Laura S. Dreissen, Kjeld S. E. Eikema
    Pages 207-224
  11. Phase-Stable, Multi-μJ Femtosecond Pulses from a Repetition-Rate Tunable Ti:Sa-Oscillator-Seeded Yb-Fiber Amplifier

    • T. Saule, S. Holzberger, O. De Vries, M. Plötner, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann et al.
    Pages 225-236
  12. Quantum Electrodynamics, High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Fundamental Constants

    • Savely G. Karshenboim, Vladimir G. Ivanov
    Pages 237-265
  13. High-Precision Spectroscopy of the HD+ Molecule at the 1-p.p.b. Level

    • J. Biesheuvel, J.-Ph. Karr, L. Hilico, K. S. E. Eikema, W. Ubachs, J. C. J. Koelemeij
    Pages 267-307
  14. Orientational Dependence of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Signals in Laser-Driven Atomic Magnetometers

    • Simone Colombo, Vladimir Dolgovskiy, Theo Scholtes, Zoran D. Grujić, Victor Lebedev, Antoine Weis
    Pages 309-329
  15. All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Laser Architecture for Robust Femtosecond Pulse Generation

    • Wolfgang Hänsel, Heinar Hoogland, Michele Giunta, Sebastian Schmid, Tilo Steinmetz, Ralf Doubek et al.
    Pages 331-340

About this book

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is given to ultrafast laser phenomena, implementations of frequency combs, precision spectroscopy and high resolution metrology. Furthermore, applications of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are widely covered. This book is dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The contributions are reprinted from a topical collection published in Applied Physics B, 2016.
Selected contributions are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Please see the copyright page for further details. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Dieter Meschede

  • Max-Planck-Institute for Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany

    Thomas Udem

  • Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tilman Esslinger

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Tilman Esslinger

Head of the Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Research area: Quantum gases, quantum simulation, quantum optics

Major scientific accomplishments: first experimental realization of a Fermi-Hubbard model and the Mott insulator using a fermionic quantum gas trapped in an optical lattice, measurement of the critical exponent of the correlation length in a Bose gas, first realization of a one-dimensional atomic quantum gas, cavity QED and cavity opto-mechanics with Bose- Einstein condensates, observation of the Dicke quantum phase transition, optical lattices with Dirac points, realization of the topological Haldane model, observation of quantized conductance in a Fermi gas.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede

Head of Quantum Technology group at University Bonn, Germany

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics,

Research interests: Quantum technologies with single neutral atoms, few-atom quantum systems, discrete-time quantum walks, cavity QED, digital quantum simulators

Prof. Dr. Thomas Udem

Permanent research associate at the Laser spectroscopy division / Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics / Garching and Institute of Physics Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Research interests: Ultraprecise laser spectroscopy, Frequency combs in the extreme ultraviolet, High harmonic generation, Atomic physics with ion traps, Precision spectroscopy of single atoms, hydrogen and hoydrogen-like systems, Test of fundamental laws, Search for slowly varying constants, Frequency combs infrared and extreme ultraviolet, Ion traps, Intra-cavity high harmonic generation

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring the World with the Laser

  • Book Subtitle: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th birthday

  • Editors: Dieter Meschede, Thomas Udem, Tilman Esslinger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64345-8Published: 12 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87774-7Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64346-5Published: 02 January 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 812

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 262 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry

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