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Interference Coatings for Ultrafast Optics

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Optical Interference Coatings

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Shortly after the invention of the laser, phase locking of the axial eigenmodes of the laser cavity, briefly referred to as mode locking, opened the way to the generation of ultrashort laser pulses. Numerous applications benefited from the availability of short pulses: time-resolved (pump-probe) spectroscopy, precision material processing and large-bandwidth telecommunication are only a few of the many examples. Last but not least, ultrafast laser sources proved to be an invaluable laboratory tool for investigating new regimes of nonlinear optics.

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  1. Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Gabriel Tempea, Vladislav Yakovlev & Ferenc Krausz

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  1. Fraunhofer-Institut, Angewandte Optik Feinmechanik, Winzerlaer Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany

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  2. Institut für Ionenphysik, Universität Innbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innbruck, Austria

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Tempea, G., Yakovlev, V., Krausz, F. (2003). Interference Coatings for Ultrafast Optics. In: Kaiser, N., Pulker, H.K. (eds) Optical Interference Coatings. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36386-6_16

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