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Field guide to laser pulse generation / Rudiger Paschotta

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SPIE field guides ; 14Publisher: Bellingham, Wash. <1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA> : SPIE, 2008Description: 1 online resource (xi, 119 p. : ill.)ISBN:
  • 9780819478276
  • 0819472484
  • 9780819472489
Other title:
  • Laser pulse generation
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 0819472484. | 9780819472489. | Erscheint auch als: No title Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 621.366
  • 621.36/6 22
LOC classification:
  • QC689.5.L37
DOI: DOI: 10.1117/3.800629Online resources: Additional physical formats: Also available in print version.Summary: Glossary of symbols -- Introduction to optical pulses -- Optical pulses in the time domain -- Optical pulses in the frequency domain -- Bandwidth-limited pulses -- Pulse trains and frequency combs -- Carrier-envelope offset -- Overview of laser sources for optical pulses -- Q switching -- Active and passive Q switching -- Essentials of laser dynamics -- Pumping the gain medium -- Dynamics of active Q switching -- Achievable pulse energy -- Pulse duration and buildup time -- Influence of pulse repetition rate -- Dynamics of passive Q switching -- Pulse duration and pulse energy -- Saturable absorbers for Q switching -- Influence of pump fluctuations -- Mode beating in multimode lasers -- Q-Switched solid-State bulk lasers -- Q-Switched microchip lasers -- Q-Switched fiber lasers -- Multiple pulsing and instabilities -- Cavity dumping -- Gain switching -- Comparison with other techniques -- Mode locking -- Active mode locking -- Passive mode locking -- Mode locking with fast saturable absorbers -- Mode locking with slow saturable absorbers -- Chromatic dispersion -- Dispersive pulse broadening -- Effect of dispersion in mode-locked lasers -- Dispersion compensation -- The Kerr nonlinearity -- Self-phase modulation -- Self-phase modulation and chromatic dispersion -- Optical solitons -- Quasi-Soliton pulses in laser resonatorsSummary: Semiconductor saturable absorbers -- Other saturable absorbers for mode locking -- Initiation of mode locking -- Q-switching instabilities -- Actively mode-locked solid-state bulk lasers -- Harmonic mode locking -- Passively mode-locked solid-state bulk lasers -- Performance figures of mode-locked bulk lasers -- Choice of solid-State gain media -- Additive-Pulse mode locking -- Kerr lens mode locking -- Generation of few-cycle pulses -- Mode-locked high-power thin-disk lasers -- Miniature lasers with high repetition rates -- Mode-locked fiber lasers -- Soliton fiber lasers -- Limitations of soliton fiber lasers -- Stretched-pulse fiber lasers -- Similariton fiber lasers -- Mode-locked diode lasers -- Mode-locked VECSELs -- Mode-locked dye lasers -- Instabilities of mode-locked lasers -- Cavity dumping -- Amplification of ultrashort pulses -- Multipass solid-state bulk amplifiers -- Regenerative amplifiers -- Fiber amplifiers -- Chirped-pulse amplification -- Optical parametric amplifiers -- Pulse characterization -- Measurement of pulse energy and peak power -- Autocorrelators -- Pulse characterization with FROG -- Pulse characterization with SPIDER -- Measurement of carrier-envelope offset -- Timing jitter of mode-locked lasers -- Measurement of timing jitter -- Equation summary -- Bibliography -- IndexPPN: PPN: 1018189025Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-50-SPI
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