Post-compression of ultra-short laser pulses via self-phase modulation is routinely employed
for the generation of laser pulses with optical bandwidths reaching far beyond the laser gain …

An ubiquitous focusing element for charged particles is the magnetic solenoid lens. For the
case of ultrashort electron pulses, we show here that misalignment of the lens, ie …

The purpose of this extended paper is to provide a review of the chirp function and the
chirplet transform and to investigate the application of chirplet modulation for digital …

Long-term stability of a laser system is crucially important for applications such as ultrafast
laser spectroscopy. Unfortunately, this topic received little attention in novel pulse …

Supercontinuum generation and compression in a length of 50-mm photonic crystal fiber
with pulse of nanojoule energy are investigated theoretically and experimentally. Chirped …

Time-resolved electron diffraction is a powerful tool to observe ultrafast structural dynamics
in materials and molecules with atomic spatial as well as temporal resolution. Due to …

Abstract Eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel Attosekundenmetrologie,
fordern ein Lasersystem mit hoher Wiederholrate von hunderten Kilohertz oder Megahertz …

The chirp function (a unit amplitude quadratic phase-only function with linear frequency
modulation) is well known and is used in a wide range of applications including radar, digital …

This chapter of the dissertation will discuss the average and peak power scalability of the
achievements described in Chap. 2, ie few-cycle pulse generation and CEP stabilization. In …

Various optical fibers have been used efficiently for femtosecond pulse compression
purposes including different photonic crystal fibers with varying core diameters. The …