Short-Pulse Surface Interactions

  • D. Hulin
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Part of the NATO ASI Series book series (NSSE, volume 134)

Abstract

The picosecond era in laser pulse generation and measurement began in 1966 with the appearance of mode-locked lasers, soon followed by the development of non-linear techniques of time measurement. It is now possible to produce reliably pulses as short as a few tens femtoseconds. In such brief interval of time, practically the only things that move in the material universe are the electrons in atoms, molecules or solids. These ultrashort pulses permit for the first time direct time-resolved studies of extremely rapid phenomena previously indirectly inferred from spectral measurements.

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Fumed Silica Pump Pulse Optical Pulse Probe Pulse Saturable Absorber 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • D. Hulin
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  1. 1.Laboratoire d’Optique AppliquéeENSTA — Ecole PolytechniquePalaiseauFrance

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