Field guide to laser pulse generation [electronic resource] / Rudiger Paschotta.

This Guide provides the essential information on laser pulse generation, including Q switching, gain switching, mode locking, and the amplification of ultrashort pulses to high energies. Pulse characterization is also covered, along with the physical aspects and various technical limitations. This G...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SPIE Digital Library)
Main Author: Paschotta, Rüdiger
Corporate Author: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Other title:Laser pulse generation.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE, 2008.
Series:SPIE field guides ; FG14.
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505 0 |a Glossary of symbols -- Introduction to optical pulses -- Optical pulses in the time domain -- Optical pulses in the frequency domain -- Bandwidth-limited pulses -- Pulse trains and frequency combs -- Carrier-envelope offset -- Overview of laser sources for optical pulses -- Q switching -- Active and passive Q switching -- Essentials of laser dynamics -- Pumping the gain medium -- Dynamics of active Q switching -- Achievable pulse energy -- Pulse duration and buildup time -- Influence of pulse repetition rate -- Dynamics of passive Q switching -- Pulse duration and pulse energy -- Saturable absorbers for Q switching -- Influence of pump fluctuations -- Mode beating in multimode lasers -- Q-Switched solid-State bulk lasers -- Q-Switched microchip lasers -- Q-Switched fiber lasers -- Multiple pulsing and instabilities -- Cavity dumping -- Gain switching -- Comparison with other techniques -- Mode locking -- Active mode locking -- Passive mode locking -- Mode locking with fast saturable absorbers -- Mode locking with slow saturable absorbers -- Chromatic dispersion -- Dispersive pulse broadening -- Effect of dispersion in mode-locked lasers -- Dispersion compensation -- The Kerr nonlinearity -- Self-phase modulation -- Self-phase modulation and chromatic dispersion -- Optical solitons -- Quasi-Soliton pulses in laser resonators. 
505 8 |a Semiconductor saturable absorbers -- Other saturable absorbers for mode locking -- Initiation of mode locking -- Q-switching instabilities -- Actively mode-locked solid-state bulk lasers -- Harmonic mode locking -- Passively mode-locked solid-state bulk lasers -- Performance figures of mode-locked bulk lasers -- Choice of solid-State gain media -- Additive-Pulse mode locking -- Kerr lens mode locking -- Generation of few-cycle pulses -- Mode-locked high-power thin-disk lasers -- Miniature lasers with high repetition rates -- Mode-locked fiber lasers -- Soliton fiber lasers -- Limitations of soliton fiber lasers -- Stretched-pulse fiber lasers -- Similariton fiber lasers -- Mode-locked diode lasers -- Mode-locked VECSELs -- Mode-locked dye lasers -- Instabilities of mode-locked lasers -- Cavity dumping -- Amplification of ultrashort pulses -- Multipass solid-state bulk amplifiers -- Regenerative amplifiers -- Fiber amplifiers -- Chirped-pulse amplification -- Optical parametric amplifiers -- Pulse characterization -- Measurement of pulse energy and peak power -- Autocorrelators -- Pulse characterization with FROG -- Pulse characterization with SPIDER -- Measurement of carrier-envelope offset -- Timing jitter of mode-locked lasers -- Measurement of timing jitter -- Equation summary -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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