Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena

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- Provides an easy to follow guide through ''faster than electronics'' probing and detection methods - THE manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems and experiments - Discusses the essential technology for applications in micro-machining, femtochemistry, medical imaging, and attosecond science - Elegant theoretical formulations in conjunction with experimental discussions on practical implementation and "field-applications" of nonlinear and ultrafast optics - Insightful presentation of measurement techniques with numerous examples of ultrafast processes in assorted materials - Chapters 3 and 4 re-written and combined into a single chapter starting with general concepts of coherent interaction, evolving by approximations to the traditional concepts of nonlinear optics - New chapter 4 on High Fields interactions, to include High Harmonic Generation attosecond phenomena, and particle accelerators - New section on the synthesis of frequency combs (cascade of Raman lines or of harmonics) to create ultrashort pulses (chapter 5), VECSEL lasers (chapter 6), OPCPA, Dazzler and Fazzler (Chapter 8) - Add comb spectroscopy and molecular spectroscopy in Chapter 10 - Chapters 11 through 13 completely re-written and updated