Ultrafast lasers, which generate optical pulses in the picosecond and femtosecond range,
have progressed over the past decade from complicated and specialized laboratory systems …

The peak power of present-day lasers is limited by the pulse energy that the diffraction
gratings of an optical compressor can withstand. A promising method to overcome this …

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, Second Edition serves as an introduction to the
phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to …

Intense, well-controlled light pulses with only a few optical cycles start to play a crucial role
in many fields of physics, such as attosecond science. We present an extremely simple and …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

Photonic crystals are well known for their celebrated photonic band-gaps—the forbidden
frequency ranges, for which the light waves cannot propagate through the structure. The …

We demonstrate numerically and experimentally a chirped mirror with controlled reflectivity
and dispersion of up to 1.5 octaves. A complementary pair of such mirrors has a reflectivity of …

The speed of optoelectronic devices is normally limited by the components used on the
electronic side of the device. The direct generation of short light pulses from short current …

We report on double-chirped mirrors with custom-tailored dispersion characteristics over a
bandwidth of 170?? THz in the visible. The mirrors are used in a prismless compressor for a …

We report the feasibility of precision broadband dispersion control with multilayer mirrors
produced in a single coating run. Inherent fluctuations of the group-delay dispersion (GDD) …