A new generation of high-power, waveform controlled, few-cycle light sources. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marcus Seidel.
• Authors: Seidel, Marcus
• Contents: Intro; Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Does ``Generation'' Refer to?; 1.2 A Short History of Short Pulses; 1.3 The Thin-Disk Concept -- Power-Scalable Ultrashort Pulse Oscillators; 1.4 Fundamentals; 1.4.1 Mode-Beating; 1.4.2 Mode-Locking; 1.4.3 Self-Phase-Modulation; 1.4.4 Dispersion Compensation; 1.4.5 Frequency Combs; 1.4.6 Nonlinear Frequency Down-Conversion; References; 2 Proof of Concept: Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization 2.1 An Ultrafast Workhorse: The Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillator2.2 Entering the Few-Cycle Pulse Regime with Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillators; 2.2.1 Solid-Core Fiber-Based Pulse Compression; 2.2.2 Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in Bulk Material; 2.3 Stabilizing Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillators; 2.3.1 Passive Stabilization; 2.3.2 Active Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization; 2.4 Chapter Summary; References; 3 Power Scalable Concepts; 3.1 Fiber-Based Pulse Compression; 3.1.1 Limitations of Solid-Core Fiber; 3.1.2 Kagomé-Type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers 3.2 All Solid-State Spectral Broadening in Bulk Material3.2.1 Compression by Means of the Optical Kerr Effect of Dielectrics; 3.2.2 Efficient Pulse Compression in Self-defocusing Bulk Media; 3.3 Power-Scaling Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization; 3.4 Chapter Summary; References; 4 From the Near- to the Mid-Infrared; 4.1 Optical Parametric Amplifiers for Frequency Down-Conversion; 4.1.1 Frequency Down-Conversion with Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate; 4.1.2 Frequency Down-Conversion with LGS; 4.1.3 Comparison to Down-Conversion via Difference Frequency Generation 4.2 Supercontinuum Generation in the Mid-Infrared4.3 Chapter Summary; References; 5 Outlook and Conclusions; 5.1 Near-Future Applications; 5.1.1 The Attosecond Oscillator; 5.1.2 High-Speed, High-Rate Optical Switching; 5.1.3 Field-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy in the Mid-infrared; 5.2 Have Ultrafast Thin-Disk Oscillators Matured?; References; Appendix A; A.1 FROG Measurements; A.2 RMS Spectral Width of a Prechirped Gaussian Pulse; A.3 Transforming the Differential Equation (3.21) to an Integral; A.4 Data Archiving; Curriculum Vitae
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 621.36/6; Laser pulses, Ultrashort; Solid-state lasers; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030107918; 3030107914
• Related ISBNs: 9783030107901; 3030107906
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2019).
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