1. Introduction to this Special Issue on Ultrafast Optics

   • David Villeneuve

   EditorialNotes 24 April 2014 Pages: s1 - s1

2. Sub-femtosecond X-ray pulse generation and measurement

   • R. Kienberger
   • M. Hentschel
   • F. Krausz

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s3 - s9

3. The role of beam profile in high-order harmonic generation by few-optical-cycle pulses

   • M. Nisoli,
   • E. Priori
   • G. Tondello

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s11 - s15

4. Reconstruction of attosecond harmonic beating by interference of two-photon transitions

   • H.G. Muller

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s17 - s21

5. Tunable high harmonic generation with an optical parametric amplifier

   • B. Shan
   • A. Cavalieri
   • Z. Chang

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s23 - s26

6. Phase-coherent synthesis of optical frequencies and waveforms

   • J. Ye
   • S.T. Cundiff
   • R.K. Shelton

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s27 - s34

7. Carrier–envelope-offset dynamics and stabilization of femtosecond pulses

   • F.W. Helbing
   • G. Steinmeyer
   • U. Keller

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s35 - s42

8. Measurements of carrier-envelope phase changes of 100-Hz amplified laser pulses

   • M. Kakehata
   • Y. Fujihira
   • H. Takahashi

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s43 - s50

9. Amplification of tailored white-light continuum

   • D. Zeidler
   • T. Witte
   • M. Motzkus

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s51 - s56

10. A novel study of supercontinuum generation

    • J. Tate
    • D.W. Schumacher

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s57 - s62

11. Coherently controlled femtosecond energy localization on nanoscale

    • M.I. Stockman
    • S.V. Faleev
    • D.J. Bergman

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s63 - s67

12. Optical pulse propagation through metallic nano-apertures

    • A. Dogariu
    • A. Nahata
    • R. Trebino

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s69 - s73

13. Future of laser-based X-ray sources for medical imaging

    • J.C. Kieffer
    • A. Krol
    • Z. Ichalalene

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s75 - s81

14. Acceleration of ultra-relativistic electrons using high-intensity TM01 laser beams

    • C. Varin
    • M. Piché

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s83 - s88

15. Absorption and emission control in a femtosecond-dephasing medium via quantum coherence

    • H. Nishioka
    • K. Ueda

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s89 - s92

16. Real-time spectrogram measurements of fibre Raman solitons

    • K. Ogawa
    • M.D. Pelusi

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s93 - s96

17. Third-harmonic microscopy with a titanium–sapphire laser

    • D. Yelin
    • D. Oron
    • Y. Silberberg

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s97 - s101

18. Explicit control of spectral distribution in impulsively stimulated rotational Raman scattering

    • H. Kawano
    • A. Suda
    • K. Midorikawa

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s103 - s105

19. Diffractive optics implementation of time- and frequency-domain heterodyne-detected six-wave mixing

    • K.J. Kubarych
    • C.J. Milne
    • R.J.D. Miller

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s107 - s112

20. Measuring molecular wave functions using laser Coulomb explosion imaging with ultraviolet lasers

    • S. Chelkowski
    • A.D. Bandrauk

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s113 - s120

21. One-parameter control of quantum dynamics using femtosecond pump-probe photoelectron spectroscopy on a model system

    • M. Wollenhaupt
    • A. Assion
    • T. Baumert

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s121 - s125

22. Versatile seven-femtosecond pulse compressor of parametrically amplified pulses using adaptive optics: studies of the primary events in protein dynamics

    • M. Armstrong
    • P. Plachta
    • R.J.D. Miller

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s127 - s132

23. Generation and characterization of polarization-shaped femtosecond laser pulses

    • T. Brixner
    • G. Krampert
    • G. Gerber

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s133 - s144

24. High-energy femtosecond Cr4+:forsterite oscillators and their applications in biomedical and material sciences

    • V.V. Yakovlev
    • A. Ivanov
    • V. Shcheslavskiy

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s145 - s152

25. High-energy sub-picosecond pulse generation from 3 to 20 μm

    • J.M. Fraser
    • I.W. Cheung
    • P.B. Corkum

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s153 - s156

26. Using frequency-domain manipulation of stretched femtosecond laser pulses to create fast rise and fall times on picosecond pulses

    • D.M. Villeneuve
    • S.A. Aseyev
    • P.B. Corkum

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s157 - s161

27. Broadband amplification of ultraviolet laser pulses

    • K. Osvay
    • G. Kurdi
    • A.J. Langley

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s163 - s169

28. Passive synchronization between femtosecond Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite lasers

    • Z. Wei
    • Y. Kaboyashi
    • K. Torizuka

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s171 - s176

29. Generation of sub-40 fs pulses from a mode-locked dual-gain-media Nd:glass laser

    • S. Han
    • W. Lu
    • P.G. Newman

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s177 - s179

30. Why ring regenerative amplification (regen)?

    • V. Yanovsky
    • C. Felix
    • G. Mourou

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s181 - s183

31. Electron-beam excitation of a Ce3+:LiCaAlF6 crystal for future high-peak-power UV lasers

    • T. Kozeki
    • Y. Suzuki
    • Y. Aoki

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s185 - s187

32. Ultraviolet femtosecond pulses: Key technology for sub-micron machining and efficient XUV pulse generation

    • P. Simon
    • J. Bekesi
    • B. Wellegehausen

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s189 - s192

33. Stretched-pulse fiber lasers based on semiconductor saturable absorbers

    • M. Guina
    • N. Xiang
    • O.G. Okhotnikov

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s193 - s200

34. Largely tunable diode-pumped sub-100-fs Yb:BOYS laser

    • F. Druon
    • S. Chénais
    • D. Kopf

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s201 - s203

35. Femtosecond all-optical wavelength and time demultiplexer for OTDM/WDM systems

    • R.P. Schmid
    • T. Schneider
    • J. Reif

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s205 - s208

36. Spatio-temporal characterization of the electric field of ultrashort optical pulses using two-dimensional shearing interferometry

    • C. Dorrer
    • E.M. Kosik
    • I.A. Walmsley

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s209 - s217

37. Real-time characterization and optimal phase control of tunable visible pulses with a flexible compressor

    • P. Baum
    • S. Lochbrunner
    • E. Riedle

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s219 - s224

38. Sensitivity improvement of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction for the characterization of low-intensity femtosecond pulses

    • M. Hirasawa
    • N. Nakagawa
    • M. Yamashita

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s225 - s229

39. Time–frequency analysis of chirped femtosecond pulses using Wigner distribution function

    • K.-H. Hong
    • J.-H. Kim
    • C.H. Nam

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s231 - s236

40. Sub-6-fs blue pulses generated by quasi-phase-matching second-harmonic generation pulse compression

    • L. Gallmann
    • G. Steinmeyer
    • U. Keller

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s237 - s243

41. Few-optical-cycle laser pulses by OPA: broadband chirped mirror compression and SPIDER characterization

    • M. Zavelani-Rossi
    • D. Polli
    • U. Keller

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s245 - s251

42. Large-ratio stretch and recompression of sub-10-fs pulses utilizing dispersion managed devices and a spatial light modulator

    • H. Takada
    • M. Kakehata
    • K. Torizuka

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s253 - s257

43. High-precision measurement of angular dispersion in a CPA laser

    • K. Varjú
    • A.P. Kovács
    • K. Osvay

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s259 - s263

44. Simultaneous automatic calibration and direction-of-time removal in frequency-resolved optical gating

    • E. Zeek
    • A.P. Shreenath
    • R. Trebino

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s265 - s271

45. Direct method for phase and amplitude determination of ultra-short light pulses

    • A.R. Libertun
    • G.A. Sánchez
    • O.E. Martínez

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s273 - s277

46. Adaptive compression of intense 250-nm-bandwidth laser pulses

    • F.L. Légaré
    • J.M. Fraser
    • P.B. Corkum

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s279 - s282

47. Effect of discrete distribution of dispersion and self-phase modulation in a ∼10-fs Ti:sapphire laser

    • Y.H. Cha
    • J.M. Han
    • Y.J. Rhee

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s283 - s289

48. Experimental demonstration of phase-dispersion compensation for ultra-broadband femtosecond optical pulses generated by induced-phase modulation

    • M. Shibata
    • M. Hirasawa
    • M. Yamashita

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s291 - s294