Ebook Femtosecond laser pulses principles and experiments

Femtosecond Laser Pulses Claude Rulliere (Ed.) Femtosecond Laser Pulses Principles and Experiments Second Edition With 296 Figures, Including 3 Color Plates, and Numerous Experiments Professor Dr. Claude Rulli`ere Centre de Physique Mole´eculaire Optique et Hertzienne (CPMOH) Universit´e Bordeaux 1 351, cours de la Lib´eration 33405 TALENCE CEDEX, France and Commissariat ´a l’Energie Aromique (CEA) Centre d’Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques d’Aquitarine BP 2 33114 LE BARP, France Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Femtosecond laser pulses: principles and experiments / Claude Rulli`ere, (ed.). – [2nd ed.]. p. cm. – (Advanced texts in physics, ISSN 1439-2674) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3-387-01769-0 (acid-free paper) 1. Laser pulses, Ultrashort. 2. Nonlinear optics. I. Rulli`ere, Claude, 1947– . II. Series. QC689.5L37F46 2003 621.36’6—dc22 2003062207 ISBN 0-387-01769-0 Printed on acid-free paper. c 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed in the United States of America. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 SPIN 10925751 springeronline.com Preface This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after publi-cation of the first edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application fields have become mature. It is necessary to take into account these new developments. Two main topics merged during this period that support important scientific activities: attosecond pulses are now gener-ated in the X-UV spectral domain, and coherent control of chemical events is now possible by tailoring the shape of femtosecond pulses. To update this advanced textbook, it was necessary to introduce these fields; two new chap-ters are in this second edition: “Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids” (Chap. 11) and “Attosecond Pulses” (Chap. 12) with well-documented references. Some changes, addenda, and new references are introduced in the first edition’s ten original chapters to take into account new developments and update this advanced textbook which is the result of a scientific adventure that started in 1991. At that time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scientific community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education of scientists who use femtosecond pulses as a research tool and who are not specialists in lasers or even in optics. After proposals from different institutions, Universit´e Bordeaux I and our laboratory were finally selected to ensure the success of this new centre. Since the scientists involved were located throughout France, it was decided that the training courses should be concentrated into a short period of at least 5 days. It is certainly a challenge to give a good grounding in the science of femtosecond pulses in such a short period to scientists who do not necessarily have the required scientific background and are in some cases involved only as users of these pulses as a tool. To start, we contacted well-known specialists from the French femtosecond community; we are very thankful that they showed enthusiasm and immediately started work on this fascinating project. ... - tailieumienphi.vn