Ultrashort lasers provide an important tool to probe the dynamics of physical systems at very
short time-scales, allowing for improved understanding of the performance of many devices …

The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

Dual-comb spectroscopy offers the potential for high accuracy combined with fast data
acquisition. Applications are often limited, however, by the complexity of optical comb …

Femtosecond synchrotron pulses were generated directly from an electron storage ring. An
ultrashort laser pulse was used to modulate the energy of electrons within a 100 …

Pulses of x-rays 300 femtoseconds in duration at a wavelength of 0.4 angstroms (30,000
electron volts) have been generated by 90° Thomson scattering between infrared terawatt …

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 …

We report an optically synchronized picosecond pump laser for optical parametric amplifiers
based on an Yb: YAG thin-disk amplifier. At 3 kHz repetition rate, pulse energies of 25 mJ …

Pulse formation in an all-solid-state passively mode-locked neodymium glass fiber laser is
investigated by employing characterization techniques in the time, optical, and radio …

Measurements of actively mode-locked semiconductor lasers are described and compared
to calculations of the mode-locking process using three coupled traveling-wave rate …

Several ultrafast optical pulse generation techniques utilizing external cavity semiconductor
lasers are described. These techniques include active mode locking, passive mode locking …