A comprehensive treatment of ultrafast optics This book fills the need for a thorough and
detailed account of ultrafast optics. Written by one of the most preeminent researchers in the …

The synthesis of arbitrarily shaped femtosecond pulses by spectral filtering in a temporally
nondispersive grating apparatus is demonstrated. Spectral filtering is accomplished by …

The dispersion scan (d-scan) technique has emerged as a simple-to-implement
characterization method for ultrashort laser pulses. D-scan traces are intuitive to interpret …

The performances of a tunable femtosecond dye laser are analyzed using accurate
correlation techniques. The source is a passively mode-locked dye laser, of which both the …

We discuss the use of second-harmonic generation (SHG) as the nonlinearity in the
technique of frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) for measuring the full intensity and …

Since the advent of the laser, coherent optics has developed at an ever increasing pace.
There is no doubt about the reason. Coherent light, with its properties so different from the …

A model calculation is presented that describes the features of spectral-hole burning
measurements performed under conditions of femtosecond transient excitation and probing …

Femtosecond thermoreflectivity experiments are performed to investigate energy deposition
and transport during the very early period of short-pulsed laser heating of gold and …

Electrooptic sampling has been shown to be a very powerful technique for making time-
domain measurements of fast electronic devices and circuits. Previous embodiments relied …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes shaping and analysis of picosecond light pulses
and the space-time coherence effects due to the new situation arising in optics such as the …