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Ultrafast Optics

This text covered issues regarding ultrafast optics including: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers and other

Electrical EngineeringEngineering
Author
Franz X. Kaertner
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
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Contents· 71 sections
  1. 01: Introduction
  2. 1.01: Course Mission
  3. 1.02: Pulse Characteristics
  4. 1.03: Applications
  5. 1.04: Review of laser Essentials
  6. 1.05: History
  7. 1.06: Laser Materials
  8. 1.07: Bibliography
  9. 02: Maxwell-Bloch Equations
  10. 2.01: Maxwell's Equations
  11. 2.02: Linear Pulse Propagation in Isotropic Media
  12. 2.03: Bloch Equations
  13. 2.04: Dielectric Susceptibility
  14. 2.05: Rate Equations
  15. 2.06: Pulse Propagation with Dispersion and Gain
  16. 2.07: Kramers-Kroenig Relations
  17. 2.08: Pulse Shapes and Time-Bandwidth Products
  18. 03: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation
  19. 3.01: The Optical Kerr Effect
  20. 3.02: Self-Phase Modulation (SPM)
  21. 3.03: The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
  22. 3.04: Universality of the NSE
  23. 3.05: Soliton Perturbation Theory
  24. 3.06: Soliton Instabilities by Periodic Perturbations
  25. 3.07: Pulse Compression
  26. 3.08: Appendix- Sech-Algebra
  27. 3.09: Summary
  28. 04: Laser Dynamics (single-mode)
  29. 4.01: Rate Equations
  30. 4.02: Built-up of Laser Oscillation and Continuous Wave Operation
  31. 4.03: Stability and Relaxation Oscillations
  32. 4.04: Q-Switching
  33. 4.05: Example- Single Mode CW-Q-Switched Microchip Lasers
  34. 4.06: Q-Switched Mode Locking
  35. 4.07: Summary
  36. 05: Active Mode Locking
  37. 5.01: The Master Equation of Mode Locking
  38. 5.02: Active Mode Locking by Loss Modulation
  39. 5.03: Active Mode-Locking by Phase Modulation
  40. 5.04: Active Mode Locking with Additional SPM
  41. 5.05: 5.5 Active Mode Locking with Soliton Formation
  42. 5.06: Summary
  43. 5.07: Active Modelocking with Detuning
  44. 06: Passive Modelocking
  45. 6.01: Slow Saturable Absorber Mode Locking
  46. 6.02: Fast Saturable Absorber Mode Locking
  47. 6.03: Soliton Mode Locking
  48. 6.04: Dispersion Managed Soliton Formation
  49. 07: Kerr-Lens and Additive Pulse Mode Locking
  50. 7.01: Kerr-Lens Mode Locking (KLM)
  51. 7.02: Additive Pulse Mode Locking
  52. 08: Semiconductor Saturable Absorbers
  53. 8.01: Carrier Dynamics and Saturation Properties
  54. 8.02: High Fluence Effects
  55. 8.03: Break-up into Multiple Pulses
  56. 8.04: Summary
  57. 09: Noise and Frequency Control
  58. 9.01: The Mode Comb
  59. 9.02: Noise in Mode-locked Lasers
  60. 9.03: Group- and Phase-Velocity of Solitons
  61. 9.04: Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs
  62. 10: Pulse Characterization
  63. 10.01: Intensity Autocorrelation
  64. 10.02: Interferometric Autocorrelation (IAC)
  65. 10.03: Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG)
  66. 10.04: Spectral Interferometry and SPIDER
  67. 11: Ultrafast Measurement Techniques
  68. 11.01: Pump Probe Measurements
  69. 11.02: Electro-Optic Sampling
  70. 11.03: THz Spectroscopy and Imaging
  71. 11.04: Four-Wave Mixing