Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
The Frequency-Resolved Optical-Gating (FROG) technique has revolutionized our ability to measure and understand ultrashort laser pulses. This book contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulses. Whether you're an undergrad or an advanced researcher, you'll find easy-to-understand descriptions of all the key ideas behind all the FROG techniques, all the practical details of pulse measurement, and many new directions of research.
This book is not like any other scientific book. It is a lively discussion of the basic concepts. It is an advanced treatment of research-level issues.
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Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
The Frequency-Resolved Optical-Gating (FROG) technique has revolutionized our ability to measure and understand ultrashort laser pulses. This book contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulses. Whether you're an undergrad or an advanced researcher, you'll find easy-to-understand descriptions of all the key ideas behind all the FROG techniques, all the practical details of pulse measurement, and many new directions of research.
This book is not like any other scientific book. It is a lively discussion of the basic concepts. It is an advanced treatment of research-level issues.
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Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

by Rick Trebino
Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

by Rick Trebino

Overview

The Frequency-Resolved Optical-Gating (FROG) technique has revolutionized our ability to measure and understand ultrashort laser pulses. This book contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulses. Whether you're an undergrad or an advanced researcher, you'll find easy-to-understand descriptions of all the key ideas behind all the FROG techniques, all the practical details of pulse measurement, and many new directions of research.
This book is not like any other scientific book. It is a lively discussion of the basic concepts. It is an advanced treatment of research-level issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402070662
Publisher: Springer US
Publication date: 08/31/2002
Edition description: 2000
Pages: 425
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Rick Trebino is the Georgia Research Alliance-Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optics in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University and has specialized in the measurement of ultrashort laser pulses for the last decade. He is the co-inventor of the FROG techniques as well as other techniques for measuring pulses.

Table of Contents

1. The Dilemma.- 2. Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- 3. Nonlinear Optics.- 4. The Auorrelation, the Spectrum, and Phase Retrieval.- 5. FROG.- 6. FROG Beam Geometries.- 7. Geometrical Issues: Single-shot FROG.- 8. The FROG Algorithm.- 9. Noise: Its Effects and Suppression.- 10. Practical Issues, Marginals, Error Checks, and Error Correction.- 11. Improvisation in FROG.- 12. Very Simple FROG Apparatus: GRENOUILLE.- 13. Ultraviolet and High-Power Pulse Measurement.- 14. FROG in the Single-Cycle Regime.- 15. FROG Characterization of Complex Pulses.- 16. XFROG—Cross-correlation Frequency-resolved Optical Gating.- 17. Measuring Extremely Complex Pulses.- 18. Non-instantaneous Nonlinearities.- 19. Fiber-FROG.- 20. Blind FROG.- 21. Principal Component Generalized Projections FROG Algorithm.- 22. Measuring Ultraweak Pulses: TADPOLE.- 23. Measuring Ultrafast Polarization Dynamics: POLLIWOG.- 24. Multi-pulse Interferometric FROG.- 25. The Future of Pulse Measurement.
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