Ultrafast Optics Book

Part I Attosecond metrology: Progress in attosecond metrology.- Attosecond dynamics of electron wave packets in intense laser fields.- Part II Attosecond high harmonic generation: Attosecond Pulse Characterization by XUV Nonlinear Optics..- Spectral interference of attosecond light pulses.- Frequency Resolved Auorrelation Measurement for Characterization of an Attoseconod Pulse Train.- Characterization of attosecond pulse trains.- Part III Carrier-Envelop Phase I: High-harmonic generation at 100 MHz repetition frequency using a femtosecond enhancement cavity.- Effects of the carrier-envelope phase in the multiphoton ionization regime.- Carrier-envelope phase detection by interference between surface harmonics..- Coherent control by carrier-envelope phase in an optical poling process.- Phase-Coherent Spectrum from Ultrabroadband Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite Lasers Covering the Visible to the Infrared.- Part IV Carrier-Envelop Phase II: Coherent synthesis of multicolor femtosecond pulses.- Quasi-synchronous pumping of mode-locked few-cycle Titanium Sapphire lasers.- Ultrasimple Ultrabroadband Alignment-Free Ultrashort Pulse Measurement Device.- Measurement of Group Velocity Distortion Due to Ultrafast Index of Refraction Transients.- Frequency-domain phase conjugator for a few-cycle and a few-nJ optical pulses.- Part V High field physics and applications I: Relativistic Optics: A new Route to Attosecond Physics And Relativistic Engineering.- Electron acceleration under strong radiation damping.- Monoenergetic electron acceleration in a high-density plasma produced by an intense laser pulse.- Part VI X-ray plasma sources and applications: Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction for laser excited CdTe crystal.- Femtosecond-laser-induced ablation of an aluminum target probed by space- and time-resolved soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy.- Observation of ultrafast bond-length expansion at the initial stage of laser ablation by picosecond time-resolved EXAFS.- Part VII Poster Session: The Ehrenfest Theorem and Quantitative Predictions of HHG based on the Three-Step-Model.- Modelling of Ni-like Molybdenum X-ray laser.- Enhancement and spatial characteristics of Ka X-ray emission from high contrast relativistic fs laser plasmas.- Optical-field ionization by femtosecond laser pulses of time-dependent polarization.- Transient optical susceptibility induced by nonperturbative rotational wave packets.- THz wave generation and detection system using ~1000 nm Yb-doped fiber laser.- Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification.- Measuring Spatio-Temporal Distortions with GRENOUILLE.- First-order spatio-temporal distortions of Gaussian pulses and beams.- Characterization of femtosecond optical pulses with wavelet-transform of spectral shearing interferogram.- Water vapor absorption spectroscopy in terahertz range using wavelet-transform analysis.- Some newly developed crystals for measurement of ultrafast laser pulses by second harmonic generation.- Part VIII High field physics and applications II: Intensity scalings of attosecond pulse generation by the relativistic-irradiance laser pulses.- Observation of thin-foil preformed plasmas with a relativistic-intensity ultra-short pulse laser by means of two-color interferometer.- Part IX THz and Nonlinear processes I: Generation of ultra-smooth broadband spectra by gain-assisted self-phase modulation in a Ti:sapphire laser.- Part X THz and Nonlinear processes II: Terahertz (THz) Pigtail Assembly Utilizing a Lens Duct for Effective Coupling of THz Radiation into Teflon Photonic Crystal Fiber Waveguide.- Terahertz Radiation from Phoonductive Switch Fabricated from a Zinc Oxide Single Crystal.- Action Spectra of GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells Exhibiting Terahertz Emission Peak at Excitation Energies Below the Bandgap.- Ultrabroadband detection of terahertz radiation from 0.1 to 100 THz with phoonductive antenna.- Improvement of the photoluminescence decay response characteristics of an oxide-confined vertical cavity surface emitting laser probed by femtosecond laser pulses. -Part XI X-ray lasers: Investigations on a Soft X-Ray Laser in the GRIP Geometry.- Part XII High intensity lasers and applications: Characterization of a 1020 W/cm2 peak-intensity by focusing wavefront-corrected 100-TW, 10-Hz laser pulses.- Shaping Ultrafast Laser Pulses with Transient Optical Media.- Part XIII Atoms and molecules in high field: Quantum interference in aligned molecules.- Ellipticity dependence of high-order harmonics generated in aligned molecules.- Dissociative Ionization of Ethanol Using 400nm and 800nm Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Coincidence momentum imaging of two-body and three-body Coulomb explosion of ethanol in intense laser fields.- Temporal coherent control of two-photon ionization by a sequence of ultrashort laser pulses.- 100-attosecond synchronization of two-color mode-locked lasers by use of optical phase-locking.- Complete automatic phase compensation for the generation of a-few-cycle pulses.- Carbon nanotube based saturable absorber mirrors and their application to ultrashort pulse-generation.- Generation of extreme ultraviolet continuum radiation driven by sub-10-fs two-color field.- Ultrawideband regenerative amplifiers via intracavity acousto-optic programmable gain control.- Demonstration of pulse switching with >1011 prepulse contrast by cascaded optical parametric amplification.- Part XIV High-order harmonic generation: Generation of exceptionally strong harmonics from He in an orthogonally polarized two-color laser field.- Single-shot Measurement of Fringe Visibility of 13-nm High-order Harmonic.- High-order harmonic generation from the laser plasma produced on the surface of solid targets.- Scaling of keV HHG photon yield with drive wavelength.- Self-compression of an ultraviolet optical pulse assisted by Raman coherence induced in the transient regime.- Part XV Ultrafast amplifier: Generation of high-energy few-cycle pulses by filament compression.- High average power, 7.5-fs blue source at 5 kHz.- Downchirped regenerative amplification of femtosecond laser pulses at 100 kHz repetition rate.- Temporal contrast enhanced to 10-10 for Petawatt class femtosecond lasers.- Part XVI OPCPA: Infrared optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier for high harmonic generation.- Double-passed, high-energy, quasi-phase-matched optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier.- Control of amplified optical parametric fluorescence in hybrid chirped-pulse amplification.- Optical Synchronization for OPCPA Chains.- OPCPA systems for the amplification of ultrashort pulses up to the mJ level.- A novel method of ultrabroad band (White-light) femtosecond optical parametric amplification.- Study of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification at 1064 nm and 780 nm.