Ultrafast Optics
Published on 28. May 2009
598 pages
978-0-470-47345-0 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive treatment of ultrafast optics
This book fills the need for a thorough and detailed account ofultrafast optics. Written by one of the most preeminent researchersin the field, it sheds new light on technology that has already hada revolutionary impact on precision frequency metrology, high-speedelectrical testing, biomedical imaging, and in revealing theinitial steps in chemical reactions.
Ultrafast Optics begins with a summary of ultrashortlaser pulses and their practical applications in a range ofreal-world settings. Next, it reviews important backgroundmaterial, including an introduction to Fourier series and Fouriertransforms, and goes on to cover:
* Principles of mode-locking
* Ultrafast pulse measurement methods
* Dispersion and dispersion compensation
* Ultrafast nonlinear optics: second order
* Ultrafast nonlinear optics: third order
* Mode-locking: selected advanced topics
* Manipulation of ultrashort pulses
* Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy
* Terahertz time-domain electromagnetics
Professor Weiner's expertise and cutting-edge research result ina book that is destined to become a seminal text for engineers,researchers, and graduate students alike.
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Andrew M. Weiner is the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Professor Weiner is the coeditor of two conference proceedings and has published six book chapters, over 200 journal articles, and over 350 conference papers. His research focuses on ultrafast optical signal processing, high-speed optical communications, and ultrabroadband radio-frequency photonics. He is especially well known for pioneering the field of femtosecond pulse shaping, for which he has received numerous awards.
Content
Preface.
1 Introduction and Review.
1.1 Introduction to Ultrashort Laser Pulses.
1.2 Brief Review of Electromagnetics.
1.3 Review of Laser Essentials.
1.4 Introduction to Ultrashort Pulse Generation ThroughMode-Locking.
1.5 Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms.
2 Principles of Mode-Locking.
2.1 Processes Involved in Mode-Locking.
2.2 Active Mode-Locking.
2.3 Passive Mode-Locking Using Saturable Absorbers.
2.4 Solid-State Laser Mode-Locking Using the Optical KerrEffect.
3 Ultrafast-pulse Measurement Methods.
3.1 Terminology and Definitions.
3.2 Electric Field Autocorrelation Measurements and the PowerSpectrum.
3.3 Electric Field Cross-Correlation Measurements and SpectralInterferometry.
3.4 Intensity Correlation Measurements.
3.5 Chirped Pulses and Measurements in the Time-FrequencyDomain.
3.6 Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating.
3.7 Pulse Measurements Based on Frequency Filtering.
3.8 Self-Referencing Interferometry.
3.9 Characterization of Noise and Jitter.
4 Dispersion and Dispersion Compensation.
4.1 Group Velocity Dispersion.
4.2 Temporal Dispersion Based on Angular Dispersion.
4.3 Dispersion of Grating Pairs.
4.4 Dispersion of Prism Pairs.
4.5 Dispersive Properties of Lenses.
4.6 Dispersion of Mirror Structures.
4.7 Measurements of Group Velocity Dispersion.
4.8 Appendix.
5 Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Second Order.
5.1 Introduction to Nonlinear Optics.
5.2 The Forced Wave Equation.
5.3 Summary of Continuous-Wave Second-Harmonic Generation.
5.4 Second-Harmonic Generation with Pulses.
5.5 Three-Wave Interactions.
5.6 Appendix.
6 Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Third Order.
6.1 Propagation Equation for Nonlinear Refractive IndexMedia.
6.2 The Nonlinear Schr¨odinger Equation.
6.3 Self-Phase Modulation.
6.3.1 Dispersionless Self-Phase Modulation.
6.4 Pulse Compression.
6.5 Modulational Instability.
6.6 Solitons.
6.7 Higher-Order Propagation Effects.
6.8 Continuum Generation.
7 Mode-Locking: Selected Advanced Topics.
7.1 Soliton Fiber Lasers: Artificial Fast SaturableAbsorbers.
7.2 Soliton Mode-Locking: Active Modulation and Slow SaturableAbsorbers.
7.3 Stretched Pulse Mode-Locking.
7.4 Mode-Locked Lasers in the Few-Cycle Regime.
7.5 Mode-Locked Frequency Combs.
8 Manipulation of Ultrashort Pulses.
8.1 Fourier Transform Pulse Shaping,.
8.2 Other Pulse-Shaping Techniques.
8.3 Chirp Processing and Time Lenses.
8.4 Ultrashort-Pulse Amplification.
8.5 Appendix.
9 Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.
9.1 Introduction to Ultrafast Spectroscopy.
9.2 Degenerate Pump-Probe Transmission Measurements.
9.3 Nondegenerate and Spectrally Resolved Pump-Probe: CaseStudies.
9.4 Basic Quantum Mechanics for Coherent Short-PulseSpectroscopies.
9.5 Wave Packets.
9.6 Dephasing Phenomena.
9.7 Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering.
10 Terahertz Time-Domain Electromagnetics.
10.1 Ultrafast Electromagnetics: Transmission Lines.
10.2 Ultrafast Electromagnetics: Terahertz Beams.
References.
Index.
