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Ultrafast Phenomena VII

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, Monterey, CA, May 14–17, 1990

  • Charles B. Harris
  • Erich P. Ippen
  • Gerard A. Mourou
  • Ahmed H. Zewail
Conference proceedings

Part of the Springer Series in Chemical Physics book series (CHEMICAL, volume 53)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Ultrashort Pulse Generation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Hybrid and Passive Mode Locking in Coupled-Cavity Lasers
      W. Sibbett
      Pages 2-7
    3. Generation of Ultrashort Nd:YLF Pulses by cw Passive Mode Locking with a Nonlinear External Cavity
      J. K. Chee, M. N. Kong, E. C. Cheung, J. M. Liu
      Pages 8-10
    4. Ultrashort Pulse Generation with Additive Pulse Modelocking in Solid State Lasers: Ti:Al2O3, Diode Pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF
      J. Goodberlet, J. Jacobson, J. Wang, J. G. Fujimoto, T. Y. Fan, P. A. Schulz
      Pages 11-13
    5. Chirp in Actively Modelocked Diode Lasers
      A. S. Hou, R. S. Tucker, E. P. Ippen
      Pages 14-16
    6. Femtosecond Color Center Lasers near 2.8 µm with HgCdTe Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorber
      C. L. Cesar, M. N. Islam, C. E. Soccolich, R. D. Feldman, R. F. Austin, K. R. German
      Pages 17-19
    7. 820 nm Colliding-Pulse Modelocked Dye Laser
      W. H. Knox, F. A. Beisser
      Pages 20-22
    8. Clean Subpicosecond Pulses by Coupling Resonantly to a Linear High Loss Cavity
      P. Beaud, J. Q. Bi, J. Schütz, W. Hodel, H. P. Weber
      Pages 23-25
    9. Multireflection Effects in Gain-Switched and Q-Switched Semiconductor Lasers
      B. J. Thedrez, C. H. Lee
      Pages 26-28
    10. Dramatic Reduction of the Amplitude Noise of Colliding-Pulse-Modelocking Dye Lasers
      M. C. Nuss, U. Keller, G. T. Harvey, M. S. Heutmaker, P. R. Smith
      Pages 29-31
    11. Kilohertz Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses near 1.55 µm, to Microjoule Energies
      G. Sucha, M. Wegener, S. Weiss, D. S. Chemla
      Pages 32-34
    12. A Broadly Tunable cw Femtosecond Source for Ultrafast Spectroscopy
      E. S. Wachman, D. C. Edelstein, W. S. Pelouch, C. L. Tang
      Pages 35-37
    13. Passive Feedback for Stable Short Pulse Generation
      A. Agnesi, J.-C. Diels, P. Di Trapani, V. Kubecek, J. Marek, G. Reali et al.
      Pages 38-40
    14. A New Method of Ultrashort Pulse Generation: Modified Fabry-Perot Electrooptic Modulator
      T. Kobayashi, A. Morimoto, Bong Young Lee, T. Sueta
      Pages 41-44
    15. Subpicosecond Argon Pumped Fibre Raman Laser
      R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey
      Pages 45-47
    16. Generation and Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 800 nm
      P. Georges, F. Salin, F. Estable, G. Roger, A. Brun
      Pages 48-50
    17. Femtosecond Laser Cavity Dispersion Measurement Using Soliton Properties
      F. Salin, P. Grangier, P. Georges, G. Roger, A. Brun
      Pages 51-53
    18. Physical Properties of Coupled Cavity Lasers Used for Ultrashort Pulse Generation
      M. Morin, Y. Champagne, F. Martin, R. Vallée, N. McCarthy, M. Piché
      Pages 54-56
    19. Continuous Wave Diode Laser Seeding of Tunable Femtosecond Soliton Pulses
      E. J. Greer, D. M. Patrick, J. I. Vukusic, P. G. J. Wigley, J. R. Taylor
      Pages 57-59
    20. Gain Compression and Recovery Dynamics in Multiple Quantum Well Optical Amplifiers
      J. M. Wiesenfeld, G. Eisenstein, M. Wegener, D. S. Chemla, G. Raybon, U. Koren et al.
      Pages 60-62
    21. Generation of Blue-Green 10 fs Pulses Using an Excimer-Pumped Dye Amplifier
      R. W. Schoenlein, J.-Y. Bigot, M. T. Portella, C. V. Shank
      Pages 63-65
    22. Pulse Compression of a Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser
      J. D. Kafka, M. L. Watts, D. J. Roach, M. S. Keirstead, H. W. Schaaf, T. Baer
      Pages 66-68
    23. Coupled-Cavity Resonant Passive Modelocked (RPM) Ti:Sapphire Laser
      U. Keller, W. H. Knox, H. Roskos
      Pages 69-71
    24. Self-Starting Additive Pulse Mode-Locking of a Nd:Glass Laser
      Ch. Spielmann, F. Krausz, E. Wintner, A. J. Schmidt
      Pages 72-74
    25. Soliton-like Pulse Shaping in a cw Passively Mode-Locked Ti:Al2O3 Laser
      Y. Ishida, N. Sarukura, H. Nakano
      Pages 75-77
    26. Sub-picosecond 38 W Optical Pulses from a Hybrid Mode Locked Semiconductor Laser System
      P. J. Delfyett, C.-H. Lee, L. Florez, N. Stoffel, N. Andreadakis, T. Gmitter et al.
      Pages 78-80
    27. Femtosecond Generation of Mid Infrared Pulses at 8.5 kHz via Parametric Mixing in AgGaS2
      P. C. Becker, D. Gershoni, A. Prosser
      Pages 81-83
    28. Femtosecond Pulses in the Medium Infrared by Down-Conversion of a Traveling Wave Dye Laser
      T. Elsaesser, M. C. Nuss
      Pages 84-86
    29. Pulse Evolution in a Coupled-Cavity Mode-Locked KCl:Tl Color-Center Laser
      X. Zhu, W. Sleat, D. Walker, W. Sibbett
      Pages 87-89

  3. High Intensity Sources and Interactions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 91-91
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    2. Ultrahigh Peak Power Generation: Present and Future
      P. Bado, J. S. Coe, J. Squier, F. Salin, C.-Y. Chien, J.-P. Tapié et al.
      Pages 92-95
    3. Very High Order Harmonic Generation
      L. A. Lompré, A. L’Huillier, M. Ferray, G. Mainfray
      Pages 96-100
    4. Time-Resolved Spectral Shifts of Femtosecond Pulses in Atmospheric Density Plasmas
      W. M. Wood, W. C. Banyai, J. L. Trisnadi, M. C. Downer
      Pages 101-103
    5. Characterization of a High-Intensity, Subpicosecond XeCl Laser System
      A. J. Taylor, T. R. Gosnell, J. P. Roberts, D. C. MacPherson, C. R. Tallman
      Pages 104-106
    6. Soft-X-Ray Generation from 100 fs Irradiation of Thin Film Targets
      H. W. K. Tom, O. R. Wood II, G. D. Aumiller, M. D. Rosen
      Pages 107-109
    7. Ultrafast Microscopy of Exploding Solids
      D. D. Dlott
      Pages 110-112
    8. Femtosecond Melting of Diamond
      D. H. Reitze, H. Ahn, X. Wang, M. C. Downer
      Pages 113-115
    9. Femtosecond Photoemission and Reflectivity Measurements of High Temperature Electron Dynamics in Solid Density Plasmas
      W. C. Banyai, D. C. Anacker, X. Y. Wang, D. H. Reitze, G. B. Focht, M. C. Downer et al.
      Pages 116-118
    10. Second Harmonic Generation in Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas
      T. Engers, H. Schüler, W. Fendel, H. Schulz, D. von der Linde
      Pages 119-121
    11. Enhanced Absorption and ASE Pedestal Suppression in the Generation of Ultrashort-Pulse Solid-Density Plasmas
      H. C. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, A. Szoke, A. Hawryluk, R. W. Falcone
      Pages 122-124
    12. Proposed Source of Sub-picosecond Far Infrared Radiation
      H. Hamster, R. W. Falcone
      Pages 125-127

  4. Spectroscopic Techniques and Nonlinear Optics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 129-129
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    2. Picosecond Stimulated Raman Measurement of Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities in a Conjugated Polymer
      G. J. Blanchard, J. P. Heritage
      Pages 130-132
    3. Spontaneous Emission and Ultrafast Dephasing in Front of a Mirror
      K. E. Drabe, G. Cnossen, D. A. Wiersma
      Pages 133-135
    4. Polariton Effects in Transient Grating Experiments
      J. Knoester
      Pages 136-138
    5. Atomic Wave Packets and Optical Pulses
      L. D. Noordam, A. ten Wolde, H. G. Muller, A. Lagendijk, T. F. Gallagher, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell
      Pages 139-141
    6. High Time Resolution and Coherence Effects with Incoherent Light in the Raman Fringe Decay
      M. Müller, K. Wynne, J. D. W. van Voorst
      Pages 142-144
    7. Fluorescence Detection of Femtosecond Accumulated Photon Echo
      K. Uchikawa, H. Ohsawa, T. Suga, A. Furusawa, S. Saikan
      Pages 145-147
    8. Analysis of Femtosecond Pulse Systems Using Ray-Pulse Matrices
      A. G. Kostenbauder
      Pages 148-150

About these proceedings

Introduction

Recent improvements in the performance of light sources, i.e. reduction in pulse length and increases in wavelength range and power levels, have led to ultrafast technology becoming a basic tool in a wide variety of scientific fields. This book describes the remarkable technological improvements and results of new applications in the natural sciences and various engineering fields.

Keywords

Light Pulses Natur Picosecond and Femtosecond Phenomena dynamics nonlinear optics optics optoelectronics physics semiconductor spectroscopy technology

Editors and affiliations

  • Charles B. Harris
    • 1
  • Erich P. Ippen
    • 2
  • Gerard A. Mourou
    • 3
  • Ahmed H. Zewail
    • 4
  1. 1.Department of ChemistryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyUSA
  2. 2.Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeUSA
  3. 3.Electrical Engineering and Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborUSA
  4. 4.Department of ChemistryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84269-6
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-84271-9
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-84269-6
  • Series Print ISSN 0172-6218
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