Jens Rauschenberger

Phase-stabilized Ultrafast Laser Sources for Spectroscopy

Ultra-broadband Oscillators, Chirped-pulse Amplifiers, Enhancement Cavities, and selected Applications

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The investigation of laser-matter interactions calls
for ever shorter pulses as new effects can thus be
explored. With few-cycle laser pulses, the phase of
the electric field oscillations becomes important for
many applications.
This book presents ultrafast laser sources that
provide few-cycle pulses with controlled evolution of
the electric field. Firstly, a technique for
phase-stabilizing ultra-broadband oscillators is
discussed. Further, the realization of a
phase-stabilized chirped-pulse amplifier is described.
Frequency conversion of intense laser pulses by
high-order harmonic generation is a common way of
producing coherent light in the extreme ultraviolet
(XUV) spectral region.
Here, high-harmonic generation from solid surfaces
under grazing incidence instead from a gas target is
studied as higher efficiencies are expected in this
configuration.
Another approach to increasing the efficiency of
high-harmonic generation is the placing of the gas
target in an enhancement resonator. Further, the high
repetition rate of the XUV pulses enables their use
for high-precision optical frequency metrology with
the frequency comb technique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639018066
• ISBN-10: 3639018060
• Artikelnr.: 25665514

Autorenporträt

Jens Rauschenberger studied physics at ETH Zürich. He conducted
his diploma project on the stabilization of fiber lasers at JILA,
University of Colorado in the group of Prof. S. Cundiff.
Subsequently, he carried out his dissertation on ultrafast lasers
at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics under the
supervision of Profs. Krausz and Hänsch.