Springer Optical Sciences

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 um Laser up to 27 T and InSb Irradiated with 1.56 um 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