Coherence and Ultrashort Pulse Laser Emission

698 Pages·2010·50.773 MB·English

by  F. Duarte

COHERENCE AND
ULTRASHORT PULSE
LASER EMISSION
Edited by Dr. F. J. Duarte
Coherence and Ultrashort Pulse Laser Emission
Edited by Dr. F. J. Duarte
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Coherence and Quantum Phenomena 1
Chapter 1 Electrically-Pumped Organic-Semiconductor
Coherent Emission: A Review 3
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 2 Coherence of XUV Laser Sources 23
Sebastian Roling and Helmut Zacharias
Chapter 3 Laser Technology for Compact,
Narrow-bandwidth Gamma-ray Sources 49
Miroslav Shverdin, Felicie Albert, David Gibson, Mike Messerly,
Fred Hartemann, Craig Siders, Chris Barty
Chapter 4 Quantum Manipulations of Single
Trapped-Ions Beyond the Lamb-Dicke Limit 75
M. Zhang and L. F.Wei
Chapter 5 Coherent Optical Phonons in Bismuth Crystal 95
Davide Boschetto and Antoine Rousse
Chapter 6 Quantum Interference Signal from
an Inhomogeneously Broadened System Excited
by an Optically Phase-Controlled Laser-Pulse Pair 115
Shin-ichiro Sato and Takayuki Kiba
Chapter 7 Quantum Control
of Laser-driven Chiral Molecular Motors 133
Masahiro Yamaki, Sheng H. Lin, Kunihiko Hoki and Yuichi Fujimura
Chapter 8 Energy Approach to Atoms in a Laser Field and Quantum
Dynamics with Laser Pulses of Different Shape 159
Alexander V. Glushkov, Ol’ga Yu. Khetselius,
Andrey A. Svinarenko and George P. Prepelitsa
VI Contents
Part 2 Ultrashort Laser Pulse Emission and Applications 187
Chapter 9 Second Harmonic Generation under Strong Influence of
Dispersion and Cubic Nonlinearity Effects 189
Sergey Mironov, Vladimir Lozhkarev, Vladislav Ginzburg,
Ivan Yakovlev, Grigory Luchinin, Efim Khazanov,
Alexander Sergeev, and Gerard Mourou
Chapter 10 Temporal Stretching of Short Pulses 205
Rajeev Khare and Paritosh K. Shukla
Chapter 11 Ultrafast Laser Pulse Synchronization 227
Heping Zeng, Ming Yan and Wenxue Li
Chapter 12 Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization
of Grating Based High-Power Ultrafast Laser 261
Shouyuan Chen, Yi Wu, Kun Zhao and Zenghu Chang
Chapter 13 The Generation and Characterisation
of Ultrashort Mid-Infrared Pulses 281
J. Biegert, P.K.Bates and O.Chalus
Chapter 14 Contrast Improvement
of Relativistic Few-Cycle Light Pulses 305
Lsázló Veisz
Chapter 15 Modeling the Interaction of a Single-Cycle Laser Pulse
With a Bound Electron Without Ionization 331
Ufuk Parali and Dennis R. Alexander
Chapter 16 Ultrashort, Strongly Focused Laser Pulses in Free Space 355
Alexandre April
Chapter 17 Interaction of Short Laser Pulses
with Gases and Ionized Gases 383
Stephan Wieneke, Stephan Brückner and Wolfgang Viöl
Chapter 18 Characterisation and Manipulation
of Proton Beams Accelerated by Ultra-Short
and High-Contrast Laser Pulses 403
Sargis Ter-Avetisyan, Mathias Schnürer and Peter V Nickles
Chapter 19 Picosecond Laser Pulse Distortion
by Propagation through a Turbulent Atmosphere 435
Josef Blazej, Ivan Prochazka and Lukas Kral
Contents VII
Chapter 20 Comparison between Finite-Difference
Time-Domain Method and Experimental Results
for Femtosecond Laser Pulse Propagation 449
Shinki Nakamura
Chapter 21 Non Perturbative Time-Dependent Density Functional
Theory, TDDFT: Study of Ionization and Harmonic
Generation in Linear Di-(N ) and Tri-(CO , OCS, CS )
2 2 2
Atomic Molecules with Ultrashort Intense
Laser Pulses-Orientational Effects 493
Emmanuel Penka Fowe and André Dieter Bandrauk
Chapter 22 Femtosecond Fabrication
of Waveguides in Ion-Doped Laser Crystals 519
Andrey Okhrimchuk
Chapter 23 Heat Absorption, Transport and Phase Transformation
in Noble Metals Excited by Femtosecond Laser Pulses 543
Wai-Lun Chan and Robert S. Averback
Chapter 24 Probing Ultrafast Dynamics of Polarization Clusters
in BaTiO by Pulsed Soft X-Ray Laser Speckle Technique 561
3
Kai Ji and Keiichiro Nasu
Chapter 25 Two-Photon Polymerization of Inorganic-Organic
Hybrid Polymers as Scalable Technology
Using Ultra-Short Laser Pulses 583
Houbertz, Ruth, Steenhusen, Sönke,
Stichel, Thomas, and Sextl, Gerhard
Chapter 26 Several Diffractive Optical Elements Fabricated
by Femtosecond Laser Pulses Writing Directly 609
Zhongyi Guo, Lingling Ran, Shiliang Qu and Shutian Liu
Chapter 27 Sub-Wavelength Patterning of Self-Assembled
Organic Monolayers via Nonlinear Processing
with Femtosecond Laser Pulses 629
Nils Hartmann
Chapter 28 Applications of Short Laser Pulses 645
S. Mehdi Sharifi and Abdossamad Talebpour
Chapter 29 Ultrashort Laser Pulses Applications 663
Ricardo Elgul Samad, Lilia Coronato Courrol,
Sonia Licia Baldochi and Nilson Dias Vieira Junior

Preface
In an optimized pulsed laser source, the coherence of its emission (or linewidth) is
intimately related to the duration of the emission pulse, by one of the most beautiful
expressions of quantum optics
ΔνΔt ≈ 1
which is an alternative version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
ΔpΔx ≈ h
In this volume, recent contributions on coherence provide a useful perspective on the
diversity of various coherent sources of emission and coherent related phenomena of
current interest. These papers provide a preamble for a larger collection of contribu-
tions on ultrashort pulse laser generation and ultrashort pulse laser phenomena. Pa-
pers on ultrashort pulse phenomena include works on few cycle pulses, high-power
generation, propagation in various media, and a variety of applications of current in-
terest. Undoubtedly, Coherence and Ultrashort Pulse Emission off ers a rich and practical
perspective on this rapidly evolving fi eld.
F. J. Duarte
Rochester
New York, USA