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Ultrafast Lasers

A Comprehensive Introduction to Fundamental Principles with Practical Applications

Authors:

  1. Ursula Keller

    1. Physics Department, Ultrafast Laser Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Comprehensive and insightful textbook from the leading expert in ultrafast optics

  • Covers fundamental theory and experimental design with a focus on applications and lab use

  • Provides numerous worked examples and problems with solutions

Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Linear Pulse Propagation

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 25-71

  4. Dispersion Compensation

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 73-130

  5. Nonlinear Pulse Propagation

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 131-183

  7. Active Modelocking

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 225-277

  8. Saturable Absorbers for Solid-State Lasers

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 279-371

  9. Q-Switching

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 373-418

  10. Passive Modelocking

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 419-546

  11. Pulse Duration Measurements

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 547-587

  13. Optical Frequency Comb from Modelocked Lasers

    • Ursula Keller
    Pages 639-702

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 703-800
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About this book

This textbook presents a comprehensive introduction to ultrafast laser physics with a keen awareness of the needs of graduate students. It is self-contained and ready to use for both ultrafast laser courses and background for experimental investigation in the lab. The book starts with an advanced introduction to linear and nonlinear pulse propagation, details Q-switching and modelocking and goes into detail while explaining ultrashort pulse generation and measurement. Finally, the characterization of the laser signals is illustrated, and a broad range of applications presented. A multitude of worked examples and problems with solutions help to deepen the reader's understanding.

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Keywords

  • Textbook Ultrashort Pulses
  • Textbook Ultrafast Laser Physics
  • Nonlinear Laser Pulse Propagation
  • Modelocking Laser
  • Laser Pulse Duration Measurement
  • Noise Characterization Laser
  • Short Pulse Laser
  • short-time laser spectroscopy
  • active and passive modelocking
  • Q-switching
  • Ultrafast lasers explained
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Physics Department, Ultrafast Laser Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ursula Keller

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About the author

Ursula Keller, a tenured professor of physics at ETH Zurich since 1993, leads the Ultrafast Laser Physics group, and currently also serves as a director of the Swiss multi-institute NCCR MUST excellence program in ultrafast science since 2010. Born 1959 in Zug, Switzerland, she received the Physics "Diplom" from ETH Zurich in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University, USA in 1989. She was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1989 to 1993. She was a “Visiting Miller Professor” at UC Berkeley in 2006 and a visiting professor at the Lund Institute of Technologies in 2001. She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products since 1995 and for GigaTera from 2000 to 2003, a venture capital funded telecom company during the “bubble phase” which was acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003. Time-Bandwidth Products was acquired by JDSU in 2014.
 
Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. She invented the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) which enabled passive modelocking of diode-pumped solid-state lasers and established ultrafast solid-state lasers for science and industrial applications. She pushed the frontier of few-cycle pulse generation and full electric field control at petahertz frequencies. Pioneered frequency comb stabilization from modelocked lasers, which was also noted by the Nobel committee for Physics in 2005. In time-resolved attosecond metrology she invented the attoclock which measured the electron tunneling delay time and observed the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in condensed matter for the first time.
 
Awards include the SPIE Gold Medal (2020) – SPIE’s highest honor, OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2020) – OSA’s highest award for overall distinction in optics, IEEE Edison Medal (2019), European Inventor Award for lifetime achievement (2018), IEEE Photonics Award (2018), ERC advanced grants (2012 and 2018), OSA Charles H. Townes Award (2015), LIA Arthur L. Schawlow Award (2013), EPS Senior Prize (2011), OSA Fraunhofer/Burley Prize (2008), Leibinger Innovation Prize (2004), and Zeiss Research Award (1998). OSA, SPIE, IEEE, EPS and IAPLE Fellow, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, German Academy Leopoldina and Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences. She supervised and graduated 87 Ph.D. students, publish^480 journal publications. 

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ultrafast Lasers

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Introduction to Fundamental Principles with Practical Applications

  • Authors: Ursula Keller

  • Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82532-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82531-7Published: 08 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82534-8Published: 09 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82532-4Published: 07 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4513

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 800

  • Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 234 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Physics and Astronomy, Laser, Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications

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