… The two main types of picosecond sources, giant-pulse solid state systems and dye lasers, …
is the only source, to date, of steady-state, bandwidthlimited subpicosecond pulses. Recent …

… of techniques for generating pulses with durations of nanoseconds, picoseconds, or even
femtoseconds with lasers. Such short durations make light pulses … Laser pulses are essentially …

… methods range from deep-sea sound sources to cloud height measurement, as well as the
conventional (and the unconventional) electronic flash method of producing … new generation …

… pulses is one of the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub-cycle pulse
generation … to the coherent synthesis of pulses generated by separate sources. In this review …

… methods for obtaining ultrashort light pulses and analysis of the impact of ultrashort optical
pulses … degree of unipolarity of pulses (maximum for strictly unipolar pulses) in the efficiency …

… These highpower sources generate near unipolar pulses of approximately 500 fs duration.
The spectral peak of the pulses lies in the 0.3 – 0.5 THz range, while the whole spectrum …

… field phase in a train of pulses causes a shift in the corresponding frequency … generation
of arbitrary waveforms at optical frequencies. Techniques for shaping ultrashort optical pulses …

… generation and amplification of ultrashort laser light pulses, 7 p ';; 10 12 s. Current methods
for generating optical pulses … techniques, as well as various novel sources for ultrashort light …

… In addition, in any laser radar system, high optical pulse energies are required for launch
since … optical pulses so that detrimental nonlinearities that may be encountered during pulse …

… pulses. Rapid advances have been made, especially in the last decade during which optical
pulses … down to the femtosecond region, and the pulse peak power has reached the multi-…