This book reflects the most up-to-date results presented at Ultrafast Optics 2003. The volume contains keynote and invited contributions together with carefully selected regular contributions. The book aims at the highest level of presentation to make it useful as a reference for those working in the field. Ultrafast Optics 1999 and 2001 were published as supplements to Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics.
Part I
Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses:Compact Femtosecond Oscillators
Novel 10- to 40-GHz Telecom Pulse Generating Sources with High Average Power
Single-Cycle Optical Pulses Produced by Coherent MolecularOscillations
A Robust New Concept for Octave-Spanning Chirped Mirrors with Minimal Dispersion Ripple
10-fs, Diode-Pumped Cr:LiCAF Laser
Broadband Phase-Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis With Actively Linked Ti:Sapphire and Cr:Forsterite Femtosecond Lasers
Synthesis of Optical Frequencies and Ultrastable Femtosecond Pulse Trains from an Optical Reference Oscillator
Generation of 14.8-fs Pulses in a Spatially Dispersive Ampli.er
A Sub-10-Femtosecond Terawatt-Scale Ti:sapphire Laser System
Direct Generation of 12-fs Pulses from a Ti:sapphire Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation System
Generation of 3.8 Fs Pulses Through Adaptive Cascaded Hollow Fiber Compression
Generation and Characterization of 3.4-fs Optical Pulses with
Over-One-Octave Bandwidth
Part II
Measurement and Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses Acousto-Optic Spectral Filtering of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Adaptive Femtosecond Quantum Control
Measuring Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Pulses Using Single-Shot FROG
Measurements of Ultracomplex and Ultraweak Pulses with
FROG
Few-cycle Pulse Diagnostics Using Plateau Harmonics
Part III
Measurement and Control of the Carrier-Envelope Phase
Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of Modelocked Lasers
Frontiers of Carrier-Envelope Stabilization Schemes for Femtosecond Oscillators
Direct Locking of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Ultrafast-Laser Stabilization with Application to Pulse
Ampli.cation by Use of Passive Optical Cavities
Solid-State Carrier-Envelope Phase Detector
Selection of Pulses Having a Constant Carrier-Envelope Phase from a Relatively Noisy Mode-Locked Oscillator
Carrier Envelope Phase Measurement Using a Non Phase Stable Laser
Stabilization and Characterization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase in Intense Few-Cycle Pulses
Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses
Part IV
Extreme UV Radiation and Sub-Femtosecond Pulses :Quasi-Phase-Matching of High Harmonic EUV Generation at Very High Ionization Levels
Enhancement and Tuning of High-Order HarmonicGeneration Using Adaptive Pulse Shaping
Multilayer EUV Optics for Applications of Ultrashort High Harmonic Pulses
Absolute-Phase E.ects of Few-Optical-Cycle Light Pulses inSingle-Shot High Order Harmonic Spectra
Reproducible Generation and Measurement of Isolated Sub-fs XUV Pulses with Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light
Controlling High-Harmonic Generation via Molecular Alignment
Towards Attosecond Half-Cycle Pulses Temporal Characterization of Attosecond Pulses
Techniques for Temporal Characterization of Ultrafast XUV Radiation
Characterization of Attosecond Electromagnetic Pulses
Characterization of Attosecond Laser Pulses UsingAngle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Part V
Ultraintense Pulses, Hard X-Ray Generation and Particle Acceleration
Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation in the Relativistic Regime by Re.ection/De.ection/Compression
Diode-Pumped Regenerative Ampli.er Front End for the Petawatt Laser Chain at LULI
The Petawatt Laser Glass Chain at LULI: Technical Issues and First Results High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Driven Hard X-Ray Source and its Application for Di.raction Experiments
Generation, Amplitude and Phase Characterization of1021W/cm2 Intensity Ultrafast Hard X-Rays from Electron Accelerators
Ampli.cation of Multikilovolt Xe(L) Hollow Atom Transitions with Xe Clusters in Con.ned Plasma Channels
Asymmetric Pulse Shapes in Grating-Based CPA Compressors and Optimal Electron Acceleration in Plasmas Part VI
Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics Progress in Chirped Pulse Optical Parametric Ampli.ers
Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Ampli.cation in Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4 at 1053 nm
Nonlinear Phase-Locking of Parametric Optical Processes:the Sliding Resonance E.ect
Low Threshold, High Repetition Frequency, Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Chirped-Pulse Frequency Conversion
Broadband Sum-Frequency Mixing for Indirect Phase Control of UV Pulses With a Sub-20-Fs TW-Class Ti:Sapphire Laser System
New Generation of Photoconductive Few-Cycle Terahertz Emitters
Magnetic-Field Induced Enhancement of THz-Radaiation from InAs Irradiated with 0.8 µm Laser up to 27 T and InSb Irradiated with 1.56 µm Laser up to 5 T
Part VII
Novel Applications of Ultrashort Light Pulses Ultrafast Electron Di.raction
Some Medical and Biological Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
Adaptive Control of Two-Photon Excitation of Green Fluorescent Protein with Shaped Femtosecond Pulses
Femtosecond Electron Optics: Towards Atomically Resolved Transition States
Application of High-Harmonic Radiation for EUV Interferometry and Spectroscopy
Time-Resolved Inner Shell Spectroscopy with Sub-fs EUV Pulses
A Quantum Theory of Time-Resolved Auger Measurement
Laser Induced Nuclear Reactions