| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 377 pages) : illustrations |
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Scottish graduate series |
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Scottish graduate series.
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| Contents |
Measuring ultrashort optical pulses / Adam S. Wyatt and Ian A. Walmsley -- Ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers / Giulio Cerullo and Daniele Brida -- Attosecond generation and high field physics / Jon P. Marangos and Malte Oppermann -- Advances in solid-state ultrafast laser oscillators / Christopher G. Leburn and Derryck T. Reid -- Ultrafast quantum control in atoms and molecules / Philip H. Bucksbaum -- Femtosecond optical frequency combs / Thomas Udem, Ronald Holzwarth, and Theodor Hänsch -- Ultrafast material science probed using coherent X-ray pulses from high-harmonic generation / Stefan Mathias, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane -- Ultrafast nonlinear fibre optics and supercontinuum generation / John M. Dudley, Rim Cherif, Stephane Coen, and Goery Genty -- Nonlinear wavelength conversion and pulse propagation in optical fibres / William J. Wadsworth -- Applications of ultra-intense, short laser pulses / Ken W. D. Ledingham -- Utilising ultrafast lasers for multiphoton biomedical imaging / Erich E. Hoover, Eric V. Chandler, Jeffrey J. Field, Dawn N. Vitek, Michael D. Young, and Jeff A. Squier -- Femtosecond laser micromachining / Loren Cerami, Eric Mazur, Stefan Nolte, and Chris B. Schaffer -- Ultrafast laser inscription of photonic devices in bulk dielectrics / Robert R. Thomson and Giulio Cerullo -- Poster sessions -- Participants |
| Summary |
The 66th school in the Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics series (SUSSP66) was held over 10 days at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, between the 11-21 August 2010. The topic of the school was the broad area "Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics" and consisted of lectures from 14 renowned international experts in this highly active research area. This book consists of 13 contributed chapters, either authored or co-authored by one or more of the SUSSP66 lecturers or executive committee members. The field of Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics is broad and multidisciplinary, and encompasses areas concerned with both the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses of light, as well as those concerned with the applications of such pulses. Ultrashort pulses are extreme events - both in terms of their durations, and the high peak powers which their short durations can facilitate. These extreme properties make them powerful experimental tools. On one hand, their ultrashort durations facilitate the probing and manipulation of matter on incredibly short timescales. On the other, their ultrashort durations can facilitate high peak powers which can drive highly nonlinear light-matter interaction processes. The chapters contained within this book cover a complete range of topics, both applied and fundamental in nature, within the area of Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics |
| Analysis |
Physics |
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Optical materials |
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Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices |
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Optical and Electronic Materials |
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Laser Technology, Photonics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index |
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Nonlinear optics -- Congresses
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Picosecond pulses -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Nonlinear optics
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Picosecond pulses
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomson, Robert R., editor, author.
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Leburn, Christopher. editor, author.
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Reid, D. T. (Derryck T.), editor, author.
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Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (66th : 2010 : Heriot-Watt University)
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| ISBN |
9783319000176 |
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3319000179 |
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