Recent advances in femtosecond laser technology: capabilities and limits

Margaret M. Murnane; Henry C. Kapteyn; Ivan P. Christov; Gregory Taft; Jianping Zhou; Andrew Rundquist; Chung-Po Huang

doi:10.1117/12.219563

15 September 1995 Recent advances in femtosecond laser technology: capabilities and limits

Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Ivan P. Christov, Gregory Taft, Jianping Zhou, Andrew Rundquist, Chung-Po Huang

Proceedings Volume 2524, National Science Foundation (NSF) Forum on Optical Science and Engineering; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.219563
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In the past five years, there has been a revolution in the field of ultrafast laser technology. Femtosecond lasers are now simple and turn-key, with output powers orders of magnitude higher than were available only a decade ago. Nonlinear frequency conversion techniques can be used to generate femtosecond pulses through the visible and infrared, and high field effects allow this range to be extended to the far-IR and x-ray regions of the spectrum. New measurement techniques have also been devised, which can extract the complete waveform of a femtosecond pulse, allowing the complete determiniation of both the amplitude and phase of pulses as short as only a few optical cycles. Finally, the pulse generation mechanisms close to the fundamental limits of operation of these systems have been understood.

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Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Ivan P. Christov, Gregory Taft, Jianping Zhou, Andrew Rundquist, and Chung-Po Huang "Recent advances in femtosecond laser technology: capabilities and limits", Proc. SPIE 2524, National Science Foundation (NSF) Forum on Optical Science and Engineering, (15 September 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.219563

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