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Ultrashort Pulses and Nonlinear Optics: Nuts and Bolts

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Ultrafast Biophotonics

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In this chapter we summarize some basic concepts related to light, nonlinear optics, and ultrashort pulses that will be employed in our explorations of ultrafast biophotonics. Concepts like the intensity of laser light, ponderomotive energy, nonlinear optics, frequency conversion as well as the characterization and propagation of ultrashort pulses that we discuss here will be frequently encountered in this book.

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Notes

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    • Throughout the book, we use bold letters to represent vector quantities and tilde (\(\thicksim \)) to denote quantities rapidly varying in time. Constant or slowly varying quantities are written without the tilde.

    • Except where otherwise noted, we use the SI (MKS) system of units.

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Vasa, P., Mathur, D. (2016). Ultrashort Pulses and Nonlinear Optics: Nuts and Bolts. In: Ultrafast Biophotonics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39614-9_2

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