TY - BOOK ID - 206651 TI - Femtosecond Laser Pulses : Principles and Experiments PY - 2005 SN - 14392674 SN - 0387266747 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Laser pulses, Ultrashort. KW - Nonlinear optics. KW - Physics. KW - Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. KW - Optics, Nonlinear KW - Optics KW - Lasers KW - Laser pulses, Picosecond KW - Light pulses, Picosecond KW - Light pulses, Ultrashort KW - Picosecond laser pulses KW - Picosecond light pulses KW - Ultrashort laser pulses KW - Ultrashort light pulses KW - Laser beams KW - Pulse techniques (Electronics) KW - Picosecond pulses KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Femtosecond lasers. KW - Lasers. KW - Photonics. KW - New optics KW - Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation KW - Masers, Optical KW - Optical masers KW - Light amplifiers KW - Light sources KW - Optoelectronic devices KW - Nonlinear optics KW - Optical parametric oscillators UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:206651 AB - This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after pub- cation of the ?rst edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application ?elds have become mature. It is necessary to take into account these new developments. Two main topics merged during this period that support important scienti?c activities: attosecond pulses are now gen- ated in the X-UV spectral domain, and coherent control of chemical events is now possible by tailoring the shape of femtosecond pulses. To update this advanced textbook, it was necessary to introduce these ?elds; two new ch- ters are in this second edition: “Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids”(Chap.11)and“AttosecondPulses”(Chap.12)withwell-documented references. Some changes, addenda, and new references are introduced in the ?rst edition’s ten original chapters to take into account new developments and updatethisadvancedtextbookwhichistheresultofascienti?cadventurethat started in 1991. At that time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scienti?c community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education of scientists who use femtosecond pulses as a research tool and who are not specialists in lasers or even in optics. ER -