Overview
- Comprehensive and insightful textbook from the leading expert in ultrafast optics
- Covers fundamental theory and experimental design with a focus on applications and lab use
- Provides numerous worked examples and problems with solutions
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook presents a comprehensive introduction to ultrafast laser physics with a keen awareness of the needs of graduate students. It is self-contained and ready to use for both ultrafast laser courses and background for experimental investigation in the lab. The book starts with an advanced introduction to linear and nonlinear pulse propagation, details Q-switching and modelocking and goes into detail while explaining ultrashort pulse generation and measurement. Finally, the characterization of the laser signals is illustrated, and a broad range of applications presented. A multitude of worked examples and problems with solutions help to deepen the reader's understanding.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. She invented the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) which enabled passive modelocking of diode-pumped solid-state lasers and established ultrafast solid-state lasers for science and industrial applications. She pushed the frontier of few-cycle pulse generation and full electric field control at petahertz frequencies. Pioneered frequency comb stabilization from modelocked lasers, which was also noted by the Nobel committee for Physics in 2005. In time-resolved attosecond metrology she invented the attoclock which measured the electron tunneling delay time and observed the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in condensed matter for the first time.
Awards include the SPIE Gold Medal (2020) – SPIE’s highest honor, OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2020) – OSA’s highest award for overall distinction in optics, IEEE Edison Medal (2019), European Inventor Award for lifetime achievement(2018), IEEE Photonics Award (2018), ERC advanced grants (2012 and 2018), OSA Charles H. Townes Award (2015), LIA Arthur L. Schawlow Award (2013), EPS Senior Prize (2011), OSA Fraunhofer/Burley Prize (2008), Leibinger Innovation Prize (2004), and Zeiss Research Award (1998). OSA, SPIE, IEEE, EPS and IAPLE Fellow, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, German Academy Leopoldina and Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences. She supervised and graduated 87 Ph.D. students, publish^480 journal publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultrafast Lasers
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Introduction to Fundamental Principles with Practical Applications
Authors: Ursula Keller
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82532-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82531-7Published: 08 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82534-8Published: 09 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82532-4Published: 07 March 2022
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 800
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 234 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering