Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

Over the last decade there have been spectacular developments in ultrafast laser
technology, due to the introduction of solid state active materials and of new mode-locking …

Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) exploit second-order nonlinearity to transfer energy
from a fixed frequency pump pulse to a variable frequency signal pulse, and represent an …

A comprehensive treatment of ultrafast optics This book fills the need for a thorough and
detailed account of ultrafast optics. Written by one of the most preeminent researchers in the …

The synthesis of ultrashort pulses with simultaneously tailored spatial and temporal
properties opens new horizons in multimode photonics, especially when the spatial degree …

The generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

Angular dispersion of pump frequencies is shown to be an efficient mechanism for
bandwidth enhancement in a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier. We demonstrate the …

We present the first direct evidence of the presence of an intermediate singlet excited state
(Sx) mediating the internal conversion from S2 to S1in carotenoids. The S2 to Sx transition is …

We present an experimental setup for recording vibrational coherences and thereby Raman
spectra of molecules in their ground and excited electronic states over the 50–3000 cm–1 …

Ultrafast optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) can provide, under suitable conditions, ultra-
broad gain bandwidths and can thus be used as effective tools for the generation of widely …