| Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments Contributor(s): Rulliere, Claude (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387017690 ISBN-13: 9780387017693 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduates starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student is introduced to short and ultrashort laser pulses, and learns how to generate, manipulate, and measure them. Spectroscopic implications are also discussed. The second edition has been completely revised and includes two new chapters on some of the most promising and fast-developing applications in ultrafast phenomena: coherent control and attosecond pulses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Optics & Light - Technology & Engineering | Optics - Science | Physics - General |
| Dewey: 621.366 |
| LCCN: 2003062207 |
| Series: Advanced Texts in Physics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.38" W x 9.18" (1.64 lbs) 446 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after pub- cation of the ?rst edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application ?elds have become mature. It is necessary to take into account these new developments. Two main topics merged during this period that support important scienti?c activities: attosecond pulses are now gen- ated in the X-UV spectral domain, and coherent control of chemical events is now possible by tailoring the shape of femtosecond pulses. To update this advanced textbook, it was necessary to introduce these ?elds; two new ch- ters are in this second edition: "Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids"(Chap.11)and"AttosecondPulses"(Chap.12)withwell-documented references. Some changes, addenda, and new references are introduced in the ?rst edition's ten original chapters to take into account new developments and updatethisadvancedtextbookwhichistheresultofascienti?cadventurethat started in 1991. At that time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scienti?c community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education of scientists who use femtosecond pulses as a research tool and who are not specialists in lasers or even in optics. |