Index
M
2
,17
ABCD matrix, 325
aberration
chromatic, 83
spherical, 89
absorber
two-photon, 354
absorption, 153, 154
absorption coefficient, 153,
159, 229
accelerometer, 603
acoustic pulse, 557, 568
alexandrite, 364
amplification, 153, 154, 396
chirped pulse (CPA), 410
optical parametric chirped pulse
(OPCPA), 426
amplification coefficient, 159
amplified spontaneous emission (ASE),
404, 417
amplifier, 395
inhomogeneously broadened, 403
multi-pass, 418
multi-stage, 417
regenerative, 421
travelling wave (TWA), 422
amplitude and phase retrieval, 473
frequency resolved optical gating
(FROG), 480
from correlation and spectrum, 477
spectral phase interferometry for direct
electric field reconstruction
(SPIDER), 484
amplitude response, 42
angular dispersion, 99
approximation
harmonic oscillator, 249
paraxial, 46
rate equation, 155, 156, 165
slowly varying envelope, 25,
152, 195
area theorem, 230, 231
astigmatism, 328
attosecond, 568
autocorrelation, 91, 343
intensity, 458
interferometric, 462
of linearly chirped pulse, 462
autocorrelator
intensity, 469
interferometric, 472
single shot, 468
average frequency, 6, 237
ballistic component, 584
band gap, 544
beam parameter, 47
beam propagation, 46, 130
beam waist, 47
Bloch equations, 226, 235
broadening
homogeneous, 228, 234
inhomogeneous, 231, 234, 517
spectral, 442
temporal, 442
carrier frequency, 3
carrier to envelope offset, 284, 427,
447, 610
carrier to envelope phase, 3, 28
647
648 Index
cavity
stability, 327
cavity modes, 280
chemical reaction, 540
Cherenkov radiation, 558
chirp, 19, 164, 271, 408
chirp amplification, 190
chirp compensation, 434
chirp reversal, 506
chirped, 5, 233
chirped mirrors, 80, 362
coherence, 221
pulse train, 286, 288
coherent interaction, 249
compression, 292, 433–451
Gaussian pulse, 441
in bulk materials, 450
soliton, 447
compression factor, 434, 442
compression mechanisms, 323
compressor
fiber-grating, 437, 446
hollow fiber, 446
ideal, 436
quadratic, 436
confocal parameter, 48
coplanar strip line, 574
coplanar transmission line, 560
correlation
intensity, 458
interferometric, 459
correlation, 145
background-free, 466
cross-, 271
intensity
higher-order, 459
with background, 466
correlation function, 65
correlation time, 145
correlator, 90
counterpropagating, 199
counterpropagating pulses, 320, 372
Cr:Cunyite, 366
Cr:Forsterite, 366
Cr:LiGAF, 364
Cr:LiSAF, 364
critical power, 205, 206, 409
cross-correlation, 90
intensity, 458
cross-section
emission, 405
interaction, 157
deconvolution of data, 493
degenerate four-wave mixing, 506
density matrix equation, 144
dielectric constant, 22, 38, 143
dielectric multilayers, 70
diffraction, 50
diffraction integral, 86
diffusion
measurement of, 505
dipole, 146
dipole moment, 225
dispersion
angular, 100, 124
prism, 102, 105
dispersion, 30, 32, 50, 323
angular, 94, 101
fused silica, 63
glass, 61
grating, 117
harmonic oscillator, 41
mirror, 79
nonlinear crystals, 63
quartz, 63
ZnS, 63
dispersion length, 34, 440
dispersion relation, 22
dissipative system, 144
distributed feedback, 570
duration–bandwidth product, 10, 12,
17, 163
eigenstate, 146, 245
electric field
pseudo-, 228
electric pulse, 571
electro-optic sampling, 574
electron–hole pair, 544
energy conservation, 230
Index 649
envelope, 3
slowly varying, 24
exciton, 545
extraordinary wave, 173
Fabry–Perot interferometer, 73, 74
fiber, 240, 378
single-mode, 437
filament, 597
fluorescence, 537
fs time-resolved, 509
Fourier spectrometer, 66
frequency comb, 283
frequency shift, 39, 238
frequency vs. wavelength derivatives, 32
FROG, 480
GaAs, 356
gain, 292
linear, 38
small signal, 404
gain coefficient, 229, 396
gain factor, 396
gain media, 400
gain narrowing, 402
gain saturation, 344
Gaussian beam, 47, 50, 84, 124, 325, 332
Gaussian pulse, 10, 11, 33, 50, 197
compression, 436
interferometric autocorrelation, 464
Gires–Tournois interferometer, 76
grating
GVD of, 117
transient, 503
grating vector, 504
group velocity, 24, 28, 67, 82, 95, 119
group velocity dispersion (GVD), 25, 32,
38, 85, 119, 302
in amplifiers, 402
through angular dispersion, 100
gyroscope, 601
harmonic oscillator, 40
heterodyning, 581
high harmonics (HH), 566
hole burning, 539
holography, 585
idler pulse, 189
imaging, 579
through scatterers, 583
incoherence, 222
incoherent radiation, 64, 68
index of refraction, 61
interaction matrix, 259
inversion, 153, 156, 226
isomerization, 550
Kerr gate, 580
Kerr-lensing, 320, 332
laser
alexandrite, 364
Cr:Fostertite, Cr:Cunyite, 366
Cr:LiSAF, Cr:LiGAF, Cr:LiSGAF, 364
dye, 371
fiber, 378
hybridly mode-locked, 373
mode-locked, 283
Nd:YVO, Nd:YLF, 370
Raman soliton, 378
semiconductor, 374
solid-state, 358
synchronously pumped, 342
Ti:sapphire, 292, 360
YAG, 367
lens, 82–92
achromatic doublet, 91
light-matter interaction, 143
line broadening
homogeneous, 148
inhomogeneous, 149
natural, 147
line shape factor, 156
linewidth, 150, 225
local oscillator, 271
loss, 292
linear, 38
650 Index
Mach–Zehnder interferometer, 515
matrix
ray, 130
ray-pulse, 131
resonator (ABCD), 325
mean square deviation, 16
melting
laser-induced, 549
metrology, 598
Michelson interferometer, 64–73, 90,
224, 459
microscopy, 586
miniature lasers, 373
mirror
dispersion, 70
focusing, 92
nonlinear, 349, 381
mode
longitudinal, 278, 283
mode spacing, 341
mode-locking, 283
active, 291
additive, 346
frequency domain, 283
hybrid, 291, 345
modes, 284
passive, 291
self-, 361
time domain, 290
modes
cavity, 325
molecular system, 253
molecular vibration, 518, 536
moment
first-order, 16
second-order, 16
multilevel system, 249
multilevel transitions, 245
multiphoton, 222, 243
multiphoton excitation, 255
multiphoton transition, 258
multiple quantum well (MQW), 315,
545
mutual saturation, 313
n
2
, 193
Nd:vanadate, 370
Nd:YAG, 367
Nd:YLF, 370
negative feedback, 352
nonlinear interaction length, 440
nonlinear mirror, 349
nonlinear polarization rotation, 318
nonlinear refractive index, 193
nonlinear Schrödinger equation, 208
occupation number, 146
OPCPA, 426
optical matrix, 130
ordinary wave, 173
parametric interaction, 188
parametric oscillator, 192
phase filter, 452
phase matching, 174, 189
phase memory, 155
phase modulation, 45, 56, 158
cross, 197
nonlinear, 192
phase modulator, 292, 434
phase response, 42
phase velocity, 26, 82, 95, 241
phonon, 520, 547, 569
photoconductive switch, 571
photon echo, 512
photon flux, 8
plasma, 565
polarization, 21, 143, 146,
155, 167
linear, 21
nonlinear, 21, 194
pseudo, 226, 241
resonant, 151
polarization rotation
transient, 500
polarization rotation, 351
prism, 94–117
probe pulse, 492
pulse
2π, 232, 239, 244, 512
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