Ultrafast Lasers: Technology and Applications

by Fermann; Martin E.

• ISBN13: 9780824708412
• ISBN10: 0824708415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Covering high-energy ultrafast amplifiers and solid-state, fiber, and diode lasers, this reference examines recent developments in high-speed laser technology-presenting a first-time comprehensive survey of ultrafast laser technology, its applications, and future trends in various scientific and industrial areas. Ultrafast Lasers discusses micromachining applications for metals, dielectrics, and biological tissue advanced electronics and semiconductor processing optical coherence tomography multiphoton microscopy and considers optical sampling and scanning THz generation and imaging optical communication systems absolute phase control of optical signals structural changes induced in transparent materials with ultrashort laser pulses Supplemented with nearly 1000 references, Ultrafast Lasers is essential reading for optical, electrical, computer, and communication engineers; ophthalmologists; physicists; chemists; doctors and medical researchers involved

Table of Contents

Foreword	iii
Christopher J. Morath
Preface	vii
Contributors	xi
Part I: Laser Systems
Ultrafast Solid-State Lasers	1	(60)
Rudiger Paschotta
Ursula Keller
Ultrafast Solid-State Amplifiers	61	(28)
Francois Salin
Ultrafast Fiber Oscillators	89	(66)
Martin E. Fermann
Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Amplifiers	155	(64)
Almantas Galvanauskas
Ultrafast Single- and Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Lasers: Physics and Applications	219	(104)
Peter J. Delfyett
Part II: Applications
Overview of Industrial and Medical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers	323	(36)
Gregg Sucha
Micromachining	359	(36)
Stefan Nolte
Structural Changes Induced in Transparent Materials with Ultrashort Laser Pulses	395	(24)
Chris B. Schaffer
Alan O. Jamison
Jose F. Garcia
Eric Mazur
Rapid Scanning Time Delays for Ultrafast Measurement Systems	419	(54)
Gregg Sucha
Electro-Optic Sampling and Field Mapping	473	(48)
J. F. Whitaker
K. Yang
Terahertz Wave Imaging and Its Applications	521	(52)
Qin Chen
X.-C. Zhang
Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light	573	(38)
G. Tempea
R. Holzwarth
A. Apolonski
T. W. Hansch
F. Krausz
Ultrahigh Bit Rate Communication Systems	611	(50)
Masataka Nakazawa
Nonlinear Microscopy with Ultrashort Pulse Lasers	661	(38)
Michiel Muller
Jeff Squier
Optical Coherence Tomography	699	(46)
James G. Fujimoto
Mark Brezinski
Wolfgang Drexler
Ingmar Hartl
Franz Kartner
Xingde Li
Uwe Morgner
Ultrafast Lasers in Ophthalmology	745	(22)
Ronald M. Kurtz
Melvin A. Sarayba
Tibor Juhasz
Index	767