Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new
systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one …

A high-performance airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar has been developed
during the past years. This system uses a four-wavelength/three-absorption line …

Charged pions are the lightest and longest-lived mesons. Mesonic atoms are formed when
an orbital electron in an atom is replaced by a negatively charged meson. Laser …

In this introduction we list important definitions and relations that will be used throughout the
book. We will use SI units exclusively. In a departure from custom, for degenerate mixing …

We show that plane-wave singly resonant optical parametric oscillators exhibit a temporal
modulation instability when pumped a certain number of times above threshold. Previously …

We describe a system for generating frequency-chirped and amplitude-shaped pulses on
time scales from sub-nanosecond to ten nanoseconds. The system starts with cw diode …

Integrated-path differential absorption lidar (IPDIAL) is an attractive technique to monitor
greenhouse gases from space. For that purpose, suitable absorption lines have been …

Nanosecond optical pulses with high power and spectral brightness in the deep ultraviolet
(UV) region have been produced by sum frequency mixing of nearly transform-limited …

The acronym LIDAR stands for light detection and ranging, an optical analog of RADAR
(radio detection and ranging). The conventional version of LIDAR requires a laser …

Isotope energy shifts and hyperfine structure have been measured for 33 high-energy
Rydberg levels of atomic xenon by sub-Doppler two-photon excitation spectroscopy, using …