Introduction to this Special Issue on Ultrafast Optics David Villeneuve EditorialNotes 24 April 2014 Pages: s1 - s1
Sub-femtosecond X-ray pulse generation and measurement R. KienbergerM. HentschelF. Krausz OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s3 - s9
The role of beam profile in high-order harmonic generation by few-optical-cycle pulses M. Nisoli,E. PrioriG. Tondello OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s11 - s15
Reconstruction of attosecond harmonic beating by interference of two-photon transitions H.G. Muller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s17 - s21
Tunable high harmonic generation with an optical parametric amplifier B. ShanA. CavalieriZ. Chang OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s23 - s26
Phase-coherent synthesis of optical frequencies and waveforms J. YeS.T. CundiffR.K. Shelton OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s27 - s34
Carrier–envelope-offset dynamics and stabilization of femtosecond pulses F.W. HelbingG. SteinmeyerU. Keller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s35 - s42
Measurements of carrier-envelope phase changes of 100-Hz amplified laser pulses M. KakehataY. FujihiraH. Takahashi OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s43 - s50
Amplification of tailored white-light continuum D. ZeidlerT. WitteM. Motzkus OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s51 - s56
A novel study of supercontinuum generation J. TateD.W. Schumacher OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s57 - s62
Coherently controlled femtosecond energy localization on nanoscale M.I. StockmanS.V. FaleevD.J. Bergman OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s63 - s67
Optical pulse propagation through metallic nano-apertures A. DogariuA. NahataR. Trebino OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s69 - s73
Future of laser-based X-ray sources for medical imaging J.C. KiefferA. KrolZ. Ichalalene OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s75 - s81
Acceleration of ultra-relativistic electrons using high-intensity TM01 laser beams C. VarinM. Piché OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s83 - s88
Absorption and emission control in a femtosecond-dephasing medium via quantum coherence H. NishiokaK. Ueda OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s89 - s92
Real-time spectrogram measurements of fibre Raman solitons K. OgawaM.D. Pelusi OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s93 - s96
Third-harmonic microscopy with a titanium–sapphire laser D. YelinD. OronY. Silberberg OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s97 - s101
Explicit control of spectral distribution in impulsively stimulated rotational Raman scattering H. KawanoA. SudaK. Midorikawa OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s103 - s105
Diffractive optics implementation of time- and frequency-domain heterodyne-detected six-wave mixing K.J. KubarychC.J. MilneR.J.D. Miller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s107 - s112
Measuring molecular wave functions using laser Coulomb explosion imaging with ultraviolet lasers S. ChelkowskiA.D. Bandrauk OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s113 - s120
One-parameter control of quantum dynamics using femtosecond pump-probe photoelectron spectroscopy on a model system M. WollenhauptA. AssionT. Baumert OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s121 - s125
Versatile seven-femtosecond pulse compressor of parametrically amplified pulses using adaptive optics: studies of the primary events in protein dynamics M. ArmstrongP. PlachtaR.J.D. Miller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s127 - s132
Generation and characterization of polarization-shaped femtosecond laser pulses T. BrixnerG. KrampertG. Gerber OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s133 - s144
High-energy femtosecond Cr4+:forsterite oscillators and their applications in biomedical and material sciences V.V. YakovlevA. IvanovV. Shcheslavskiy OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s145 - s152
High-energy sub-picosecond pulse generation from 3 to 20 μm J.M. FraserI.W. CheungP.B. Corkum OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s153 - s156
Using frequency-domain manipulation of stretched femtosecond laser pulses to create fast rise and fall times on picosecond pulses D.M. VilleneuveS.A. AseyevP.B. Corkum OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s157 - s161
Broadband amplification of ultraviolet laser pulses K. OsvayG. KurdiA.J. Langley OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s163 - s169
Passive synchronization between femtosecond Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite lasers Z. WeiY. KaboyashiK. Torizuka OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s171 - s176
Generation of sub-40 fs pulses from a mode-locked dual-gain-media Nd:glass laser S. HanW. LuP.G. Newman OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s177 - s179
Why ring regenerative amplification (regen)? V. YanovskyC. FelixG. Mourou OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s181 - s183
Electron-beam excitation of a Ce3+:LiCaAlF6 crystal for future high-peak-power UV lasers T. KozekiY. SuzukiY. Aoki OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s185 - s187
Ultraviolet femtosecond pulses: Key technology for sub-micron machining and efficient XUV pulse generation P. SimonJ. BekesiB. Wellegehausen OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s189 - s192
Stretched-pulse fiber lasers based on semiconductor saturable absorbers M. GuinaN. XiangO.G. Okhotnikov OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s193 - s200
Largely tunable diode-pumped sub-100-fs Yb:BOYS laser F. DruonS. ChénaisD. Kopf OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s201 - s203
Femtosecond all-optical wavelength and time demultiplexer for OTDM/WDM systems R.P. SchmidT. SchneiderJ. Reif OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s205 - s208
Spatio-temporal characterization of the electric field of ultrashort optical pulses using two-dimensional shearing interferometry C. DorrerE.M. Kosik I.A. Walmsley OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s209 - s217
Real-time characterization and optimal phase control of tunable visible pulses with a flexible compressor P. BaumS. LochbrunnerE. Riedle OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s219 - s224
Sensitivity improvement of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction for the characterization of low-intensity femtosecond pulses M. HirasawaN. NakagawaM. Yamashita OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s225 - s229
Time–frequency analysis of chirped femtosecond pulses using Wigner distribution function K.-H. HongJ.-H. KimC.H. Nam OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s231 - s236
Sub-6-fs blue pulses generated by quasi-phase-matching second-harmonic generation pulse compression L. GallmannG. SteinmeyerU. Keller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s237 - s243
Few-optical-cycle laser pulses by OPA: broadband chirped mirror compression and SPIDER characterization M. Zavelani-RossiD. PolliU. Keller OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s245 - s251
Large-ratio stretch and recompression of sub-10-fs pulses utilizing dispersion managed devices and a spatial light modulator H. TakadaM. KakehataK. Torizuka OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s253 - s257
High-precision measurement of angular dispersion in a CPA laser K. VarjúA.P. KovácsK. Osvay OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s259 - s263
Simultaneous automatic calibration and direction-of-time removal in frequency-resolved optical gating E. ZeekA.P. ShreenathR. Trebino OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s265 - s271
Direct method for phase and amplitude determination of ultra-short light pulses A.R. LibertunG.A. SánchezO.E. Martínez OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s273 - s277
Adaptive compression of intense 250-nm-bandwidth laser pulses F.L. LégaréJ.M. FraserP.B. Corkum OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s279 - s282
Effect of discrete distribution of dispersion and self-phase modulation in a ∼10-fs Ti:sapphire laser Y.H. ChaJ.M. HanY.J. Rhee OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s283 - s289
Experimental demonstration of phase-dispersion compensation for ultra-broadband femtosecond optical pulses generated by induced-phase modulation M. ShibataM. HirasawaM. Yamashita OriginalPaper 24 April 2014 Pages: s291 - s294
