Selected contributions to the 4th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics, Vienna, Austria

Author(s)

• Krausz, Ferenc
• International Conference on Ultrafast Optics

Bibliographic Information

Selected contributions to the 4th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics, Vienna, Austria

editors, Ferenc Krausz ... [et al.]

（Springer series in optical sciences, 95 . Ultrafast optics ; 4）

Springer, c2004

Other Title

Ultrafast optics IV

Ultrafast Optics 4

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The papers in this volume cover the major areas of research activity in the field of ultrafast optics at the present time, and they have been selected to provide an overview of the current state of the art. The purview of the field is the methods for the generation, amplification, and characterization of electromagnetic pulses with durations from the pieo-to the attosecond range, as well as the technical issues surrounding the application of these pulses in physics, chemistry, and biology. The contributions were solicited from the participants in the Ultrafast Optics IV Conference, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2003. The purpose of the conference is similar to that of this book: to provide a forum for the latest advances in ultrafast optical technology. Ultrafast light sources provide a means to observe and manipulate events on the scale of atomic and molecular dynamics. This is possible either through appropriate shaping of the time-dependent electrie field, or through the ap plication of fields whose strength is comparable to the binding forces of the electrons in atoms and molecules. Recent advances discussed here include the generation of pulses shorter than two optical cycles, and the ability to measure and to shape them in all degrees of freedom with unprecedented 2 21 2 precision, and to amplify them to the Zettawatt/cm (10 W /cm ) range.

Table of Contents

Part I Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses:Compact Femtosecond Oscillators Novel 10- to 40-GHz Telecom Pulse Generating Sources with High Average Power Single-Cycle Optical Pulses Produced by Coherent MolecularOscillations A Robust New Concept for Octave-Spanning Chirped Mirrors with Minimal Dispersion Ripple 10-fs, Diode-Pumped Cr:LiCAF Laser Broadband Phase-Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis With Actively Linked Ti:Sapphire and Cr:Forsterite Femtosecond Lasers Synthesis of Optical Frequencies and Ultrastable Femtosecond Pulse Trains from an Optical Reference Oscillator Generation of 14.8-fs Pulses in a Spatially Dispersive Ampli.er A Sub-10-Femtosecond Terawatt-Scale Ti:sapphire Laser System Direct Generation of 12-fs Pulses from a Ti:sapphire Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation System Generation of 3.8 Fs Pulses Through Adaptive Cascaded Hollow Fiber Compression Generation and Characterization of 3.4-fs Optical Pulses with Over-One-Octave Bandwidth Part II Measurement and Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses Acousto-Optic Spectral Filtering of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Adaptive Femtosecond Quantum Control Measuring Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Pulses Using Single-Shot FROG Measurements of Ultracomplex and Ultraweak Pulses with FROG Few-cycle Pulse Diagnostics Using Plateau Harmonics Part III Measurement and Control of the Carrier-Envelope Phase Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of Modelocked Lasers Frontiers of Carrier-Envelope Stabilization Schemes for Femtosecond Oscillators Direct Locking of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Ultrafast-Laser Stabilization with Application to Pulse Ampli.cation by Use of Passive Optical Cavities Solid-State Carrier-Envelope Phase Detector Selection of Pulses Having a Constant Carrier-Envelope Phase from a Relatively Noisy Mode-Locked Oscillator Carrier Envelope Phase Measurement Using a Non Phase Stable Laser Stabilization and Characterization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase in Intense Few-Cycle Pulses Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses Part IV Extreme UV Radiation and Sub-Femtosecond Pulses :Quasi-Phase-Matching of High Harmonic EUV Generation at Very High Ionization Levels Enhancement and Tuning of High-Order HarmonicGeneration Using Adaptive Pulse Shaping Multilayer EUV Optics for Applications of Ultrashort High Harmonic Pulses Absolute-Phase E.ects of Few-Optical-Cycle Light Pulses inSingle-Shot High Order Harmonic Spectra Reproducible Generation and Measurement of Isolated Sub-fs XUV Pulses with Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light Controlling High-Harmonic Generation via Molecular Alignment Towards Attosecond Half-Cycle Pulses Temporal Characterization of Attosecond Pulses Techniques for Temporal Characterization of Ultrafast XUV Radiation Characterization of Attosecond Electromagnetic Pulses Characterization of Attosecond Laser Pulses UsingAngle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Part V Ultraintense Pulses, Hard X-Ray Generation and Particle Acceleration Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation in the Relativistic Regime by Re.ection/De.ection/Compression Diode-Pumped Regenerative Ampli.er Front End for the Petawatt Laser Chain at LULI The Petawatt Laser Glass Chain at LULI: Technical Issues and First Results High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Driven Hard X-Ray Source and its Application for Di.raction Experiments Generation, Amplitude and Phase Characterization of1021W/cm2 Intensity Ultrafast Hard X-Rays from Electron Accelerators Ampli.cation of Multikilovolt Xe(L) Hollow Atom Transitions with Xe Clusters in Con.ned Plasma Channels Asymmetric Pulse Shapes in Grating-Based CPA Compressors and Optimal Electron Acceleration in Plasmas Part VI Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics Progress in Chirped Pulse Optical Parametric Ampli.ers Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation in Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4 at 1053 nm Nonlinear Phase-Locking of Parametric Optical Processes:the Sliding Resonance E.ect Low Threshold, High Repetition Frequency, Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Chirped-Pulse Frequency Conversion Broadband Sum-Frequency Mixing for Indirect Phase Control of UV Pulses With a Sub-20-Fs TW-Class Ti:Sapphire Laser System New Generation of Photoconductive Few-Cycle Terahertz Emitters Magnetic-Field Induced Enhancement of THz-Radaiation from InAs Irradiated with 0.8 m Laser up to 27 T and InSb Irradiated with 1.56 m Laser up to 5 T Part VII Novel Applications of Ultrashort Light Pulses Ultrafast Electron Di.raction Some Medical and Biological Applications of Ultrafast Lasers Adaptive Control of Two-Photon Excitation of Green Fluorescent Protein with Shaped Femtosecond Pulses Femtosecond Electron Optics: Towards Atomically Resolved Transition States Application of High-Harmonic Radiation for EUV Interferometry and Spectroscopy Time-Resolved Inner Shell Spectroscopy with Sub-fs EUV Pulses A Quantum Theory of Time-Resolved Auger Measurement Laser Induced Nuclear Reactions

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Details

• NCID: BA68072324
• ISBN:
  • 0387400915
• LCCN: 2003070770
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 495 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC689.5.L37
  • DC22 : 621.36/6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Laser pulses, Ultrashort -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Picosecond pulses -- Industrial applications -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00063354