Ultrafast Optics IV Book

Part I

Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses:Compact Femtosecond Oscillators

Novel 10- to 40-GHz Telecom Pulse Generating Sources with High Average Power

Single-Cycle Optical Pulses Produced by Coherent MolecularOscillations

A Robust New Concept for Octave-Spanning Chirped Mirrors with Minimal Dispersion Ripple

10-fs, Diode-Pumped Cr:LiCAF Laser

Broadband Phase-Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis With Actively Linked Ti:Sapphire and Cr:Forsterite Femtosecond Lasers

Synthesis of Optical Frequencies and Ultrastable Femtosecond Pulse Trains from an Optical Reference Oscillator

Generation of 14.8-fs Pulses in a Spatially Dispersive Ampli.er

A Sub-10-Femtosecond Terawatt-Scale Ti:sapphire Laser System

Direct Generation of 12-fs Pulses from a Ti:sapphire Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation System

Generation of 3.8 Fs Pulses Through Adaptive Cascaded Hollow Fiber Compression

Generation and Characterization of 3.4-fs Optical Pulses with

Over-One-Octave Bandwidth

Part II

Measurement and Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses Acousto-Optic Spectral Filtering of Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Adaptive Femtosecond Quantum Control

Measuring Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Pulses Using Single-Shot FROG

Measurements of Ultracomplex and Ultraweak Pulses with

FROG

Few-cyclePulse Diagnostics Using Plateau Harmonics

Part III

Measurement and Control of the Carrier-Envelope Phase

Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of Modelocked Lasers

Frontiers of Carrier-Envelope Stabilization Schemes for Femtosecond Oscillators

Direct Locking of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Ultrafast-Laser Stabilization with Application to Pulse

Ampli.cation by Use of Passive Optical Cavities

Solid-State Carrier-Envelope Phase Detector

Selection of Pulses Having a Constant Carrier-Envelope Phase from a Relatively Noisy Mode-Locked Oscillator

Carrier Envelope Phase Measurement Using a Non Phase Stable Laser

Stabilization and Characterization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase in Intense Few-Cycle Pulses

Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses

Part IV

Extreme UV Radiation and Sub-Femtosecond Pulses :Quasi-Phase-Matching of High Harmonic EUV Generation at Very High Ionization Levels

Enhancement and Tuning of High-Order HarmonicGeneration Using Adaptive Pulse Shaping

Multilayer EUV Optics for Applications of Ultrashort High Harmonic Pulses

Absolute-Phase E.ects of Few-Optical-Cycle Light Pulses inSingle-Shot High Order Harmonic Spectra

Reproducible Generation and Measurement of Isolated Sub-fs XUV Pulses with Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light

Controlling High-Harmonic Generation via Molecular Alignment

Towards Attosecond Half-Cycle Pulses

Temporal Characterization of Attosecond Pulses

Techniques for Temporal Characterization of Ultrafast XUV Radiation

Characterization of Attosecond Electromagnetic Pulses

Characterization of Attosecond Laser Pulses UsingAngle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Part V

Ultraintense Pulses, Hard X-Ray Generation and Particle Acceleration

Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation in the Relativistic Regime by Re.ection/De.ection/Compression

Diode-Pumped Regenerative Ampli.er Front End for the Petawatt Laser Chain at LULI

The Petawatt Laser Glass Chain at LULI: Technical Issues and First Results

High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Driven Hard X-Ray Source and its Application for Di.raction Experiments

Generation, Amplitude and Phase Characterization of1021W/cm2 Intensity

Ultrafast Hard X-Rays from Electron Accelerators

Ampli.cation of Multikilovolt Xe(L) Hollow Atom Transitions with Xe Clusters in Con.ned Plasma Channels

Asymmetric Pulse Shapes in Grating-Based CPA Compressors and Optimal Electron Acceleration in Plasmas

Part VI

Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics Progress in Chirped Pulse Optical Parametric Ampli.ers

Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation in Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4 at 1053 nm

Nonlinear Phase-Locking of Parametric Optical Processes:the Sliding Resonance E.ect

Low Threshold, High Repetition Frequency, Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Chirped-Pulse Frequency Conversion

Broadband Sum-Frequency Mixing for Indirect Phase Control of UV Pulses With a Sub-20-Fs TW-Class Ti:Sapphire Laser System

New Generation of Photoconductive Few-Cycle Terahertz Emitters

Magnetic-Field Induced Enhancement of THz-Radaiation from InAs Irradiated with 0.8 m Laser up to 27 T and InSb Irradiated with 1.56 m Laser up to 5 T

Part VII

Novel Applications of Ultrashort Light Pulses Ultrafast Electron Di.raction

Some Medical and Biological Applications of Ultrafast Lasers

Adaptive Control of Two-Photon Excitation of Green Fluorescent Protein with Shaped Femtosecond Pulses

Femtosecond Electron Optics: Towards Atomically Resolved Transition States

Application of High-Harmonic Radiation for EUV Interferometry and Spectroscopy

Time-Resolved Inner Shell Spectroscopy with Sub-fs EUV Pulses

A Quantum Theory of Time-Resolved Auger Measurement

Laser Induced Nuclear Reactions