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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337872903321

Autore

Seidel Marcus

Titolo

A New Generation of High-Power, Waveform Controlled, Few-Cycle Light Sources / / by Marcus Seidel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-10791-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 227 p. 108 illus., 104 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

621.36

Soggetti

Lasers

Photonics

Quantum optics

Optical materials

Electronics - Materials

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Quantum Optics

Optical and Electronic Materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Proof of Concept: Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilization -- Power Scalable Concepts -- From the Near- to the Mid-Infrared -- Outlook and Conclusions -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

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.