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860866
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Seidel, Marcus
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A new generation of high-power, waveform controlled, few-cycle light sources /\ Marcus Seidel.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, 2019.
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| Series Statement
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Springer theses,
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1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) :: illustrations (some color)
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| ISBN
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3030107914
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: 3030107922
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: 9783030107918
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: 9783030107925
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3030107906
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9783030107901
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| Notes
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"Doctoral thesis accepted by the Max Planck Institute of Quantumn Optics, Garching, Germany."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Intro; Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Does ``Generation'' Refer to?; 1.2 A Short History of Short Pulses; 1.3 The Thin-Disk Concept -- Power-Scalable Ultrashort Pulse Oscillators; 1.4 Fundamentals; 1.4.1 Mode-Beating; 1.4.2 Mode-Locking; 1.4.3 Self-Phase-Modulation; 1.4.4 Dispersion Compensation; 1.4.5 Frequency Combs; 1.4.6 Nonlinear Frequency Down-Conversion; References; 2 Proof of Concept: Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization
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2.1 An Ultrafast Workhorse: The Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillator2.2 Entering the Few-Cycle Pulse Regime with Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillators; 2.2.1 Solid-Core Fiber-Based Pulse Compression; 2.2.2 Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in Bulk Material; 2.3 Stabilizing Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillators; 2.3.1 Passive Stabilization; 2.3.2 Active Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization; 2.4 Chapter Summary; References; 3 Power Scalable Concepts; 3.1 Fiber-Based Pulse Compression; 3.1.1 Limitations of Solid-Core Fiber; 3.1.2 Kagomé-Type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers
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3.2 All Solid-State Spectral Broadening in Bulk Material3.2.1 Compression by Means of the Optical Kerr Effect of Dielectrics; 3.2.2 Efficient Pulse Compression in Self-defocusing Bulk Media; 3.3 Power-Scaling Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization; 3.4 Chapter Summary; References; 4 From the Near- to the Mid-Infrared; 4.1 Optical Parametric Amplifiers for Frequency Down-Conversion; 4.1.1 Frequency Down-Conversion with Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate; 4.1.2 Frequency Down-Conversion with LGS; 4.1.3 Comparison to Down-Conversion via Difference Frequency Generation
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4.2 Supercontinuum Generation in the Mid-Infrared4.3 Chapter Summary; References; 5 Outlook and Conclusions; 5.1 Near-Future Applications; 5.1.1 The Attosecond Oscillator; 5.1.2 High-Speed, High-Rate Optical Switching; 5.1.3 Field-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy in the Mid-infrared; 5.2 Have Ultrafast Thin-Disk Oscillators Matured?; References; Appendix A; A.1 FROG Measurements; A.2 RMS Spectral Width of a Prechirped Gaussian Pulse; A.3 Transforming the Differential Equation (3.21) to an Integral; A.4 Data Archiving; Curriculum Vitae
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| Abstract
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This thesis presents first successful experiments to carrier-envelope-phase stabilize a high-power mode-locked thin-disk oscillator and to compress the pulses emitted from this laser to durations of only a few-optical cycles. Moreover, the monograph introduces several methods to achieve power-scalability of compression and stabilization techniques. All experimental approaches are compared in detail and may serve as a guideline for developing high-power waveform controlled, few-cycle light sources which offer tremendous potential to exploit extreme nonlinear optical effects at unprecedentedly high repetition rates and to establish table-top infrared light sources with a unique combination of brilliance and bandwidth. As an example, the realization of a multi-Watt, multi-octave spanning, mid-infrared femtosecond source is described. The thesis starts with a basic introduction to the field of ultrafast laser oscillators. It subsequently presents additional details of previously published research results and establishes a connection between them. It therefore addresses both newcomers to, and experts in the field of high-power ultrafast laser development.
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Laser pulses, Ultrashort.
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Solid-state lasers.
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Laser pulses, Ultrashort.
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Solid-state lasers.
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| Dewey Classification
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621.36/6
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QC689.5.L37
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