The electric field of an ultrashort laser pulse often fails to separate into a product of purely
temporal and purely spatial factors. These so-called spatio-temporal couplings constitute a …

In this article, we review the phenomenon of dispersion, paying particular attention to its
impact in the optics of ultrashort pulses, as well as its measurement and management. At …

This article reviews the latest instrumentation used in high resolution nonlinear microscopy
and techniques for the temporal and spatial calibration of this instrumentation. This includes …

The past 30 years have seen spectacular progress in the development of techniques for
measuring the complete temporal field, and even the complete spatiotemporal field, of …

The excitation efficiency in two‐photon absorption (TPA) microscopy depends strongly—
owing to the square dependence of the TPA fluorescence on the excitation intensity—on the …

The shortest light pulses produced to date are of the order of a few tens of attoseconds, with
central frequencies in the extreme UV range and bandwidths exceeding tens of …

At present the performance of short-pulse rare-gas-halide excimer-laser systems is definitely
below that of solid-state systems, as far as the maximum peak-power is concerned …

A systematic theoretical and experimental study of focusing femtosecond light pulses by
single lenses is presented. By evaluation of the diffraction integral the interplay of spherical …

By using a different initial value from the previous treatments, we reveal that the pulsed
Gaussian beam in free space can be expressed as a simple wave packet along with the …

We introduce a body-of-revolution finite-difference time-domain simulation capability that
can be applied to rotationally symmetric linear-optics problems. This simulator allows us to …