Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

Over the last few years, there has been a convergence between the fields of ultrafast science, nonlinear optics, optical frequency metrology, and precision laser spectroscopy. These fields have been developing largely independently since the birth of the laser, reaching remarkable levels of performance. On the ultrafast frontier, pulses of only a few cycles long have been produced, while in optical spectroscopy, the precision and resolution have reached one part in Although these two achievements appear to be completely disconnected, advances in nonlinear optics provided the essential link between them. The resulting convergence has enabled unprecedented advances in the control of the electric field of the pulses produced by femtosecond mode-locked lasers. The corresponding spectrum consists of a comb of sharp spectral lines with well-defined frequencies. These new techniques and capabilities are generally known as "femtosecond comb technology. " They have had dramatic impact on the diverse fields of precision measurement and extreme nonlinear optical physics. The historical background for these developments is provided in the Foreword by two of the pioneers of laser spectroscopy, John Hall and Theodor Hansch. Indeed the developments described in this book were foreshadowed by Hansch's early work in the 1970s when he used picosecond pulses to demonstrate the connection between the time and frequency domains in laser spectroscopy. This work complemented the advances in precision laser stabilization developed by Hall."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2005
Editors:	Jun Ye • Steven T Cundiff
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	362
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-3660-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Optics (light) Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general
LSN:	1-4419-3660-2
Barcode:	9781441936608

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