Light pulse compression
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Light pulse compression
（Laser science and technology, v. 3）
Harwood Academic Publishers, c1989
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Includes bibliographical references : p. 122-129
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ultrashort light pulses obtained by pulse compression are widely used in the various fields of science, medicine and engineering, including spectroscopy, optoelectronics, communication techniques and material processing. This book focuses on the basic principles of light pulse compression through chirp generation and compensation inside and outside the laser cavity. Beginning with a brief introduction to ultrashort light pulses, the latest experimental and theoretical achievements are reviewed, including the various linear and nonlinear optical processes that have gained importance in compression techniques and contributed to pulse shaping in prisms, gratings, optical fibres and saturable media. The important femtosecond pulse lasers based on intracavity pulse compression and the use of chirped pulses in ultrafast measuring techniques are also discussed.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Description of the ultrashort light pulses, definitions and notations: Fourier transforms
- carrier frequency and pulse envelope
- spatial Fourier transforms and wave envelopes
- wave equation
- linear optical elements. Part 2 Production and compensation of chirp in linear optical devices: pulse shaping in traversing dispersive media far from resonances
- phase shaping through angular dispersion
- phase shaping by near resonant interaction. Part 3 Generation of phase-modulated pulses by nonlinear optical methods - pulse compression: self-phase modulation in traversing dispersive optical samples with nonresonant nonlinearity for efficient pulse compression
- self-phase modulation through near-resonant nonlinear interaction
- pulse propagation with nonresonant nonlinearity (Kerr effect), resonant nonlinearity, stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and linear dispersion. Part 4 Intracavity pulse compression: experimental
- theoretical
- the "soluton" laser. Part 5 Measurement of and with phase-modulated pulses: determination of pulse duration and chirp
- experiments with light pulses using the shaping in modulus and phase.
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