Femtosecond Laser Development -- Gigahertz Femtosecond Lasers -- Microstructure Fiber and White-light Generation -- Optical Comb Dynamics and Stabilization -- Femtosecond Noncollinear Parametric Amplification and Carrier-Envelope Phase Control -- Optical Frequency Measurement -- Optical Frequency Measurement Using Frequency Multiplication and Frequency Combs -- Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Cl…
Phase Controlled Femtosecond Lasers for Sensitive, Precise, and Wide Bandwidth Nonlinear Spectroscopy -- Supercontinuum and High-Order Harmonics -- The Measurement of Ultrashort Light — Simple Devices, Complex Pulses -- Femtosecond Combs for Precision Metrology -- Infrared Precision Spectroscopy Using Femtosecond-Laser-Based Optical Frequency-Comb Synthesizers -- Real-Time Spectroscopy of Mol…
Laser Basics -- Pulsed Optics -- Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Mode-Locking -- Further Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses -- Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers -- How to Manipulate and Change the Characteristics of Laser Pulses -- How to Measure the Characteristics of Laser Pulses -- Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Sample Dynamics -- Coherent Effects…
Introductory Remarks -- Fundamentals -- Some Fundamentals of Laser Physics -- Principles of Excimer Lasers -- Design and Technology of Excimer Lasers -- High-Repetition-Rate and High-Power Lasers -- High-Energy Lasers -- Excimer Lasers for Microlithography -- Laser Beam Characterization -- Optical Coatings for Excimer Laser Applications -- Small Structures with Large Excimer Lasers -- Historica…
Introduction -- Dissipative Solitons of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation -- Dissipative Magneto-Optic Solitons -- Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers -- Dissipative Solitons in Pattern-Forming Nonlinear Optical Systems: Cavity Solitons and Feedback Solitons -- Solitons in Laser Schemes with Saturable Absorption -- Spatial Resonator Solitons -- Dissipative Temporal Solitons -- S…
Space Cryocoolers for 4–18 K Applications -- 20 to 80 K Long-life Stirling Cryocoolers -- Space Pulse Tube Cryocooler Developments -- Commercial and Industrial Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Thermoacoustically-Driven Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Linear Compressor Development and Modeling -- Pulse Tube Analysis and Experimental Measurements -- Regenerator Materials Development and Testing -- Regenerat…
Fetal Magnetocardiography -- Microwave Thermoelastic Tomography and Imaging -- Diffuse Optical Imaging -- Optical Biotelemetry -- Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields (ELFMF) and Pain Therapy -- The Charge-to-Mass ICR Signature in Weak ELF Bioelectromagnetic Effects.Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems, published by Springer since 1994, presents state-of-the-art discussions i…
Optical Signal Recording -- Overview of Photon Counting Techniques -- Multidimensional TCSPC Techniques -- Building Blocks of Advanced TCSPC Devices -- Application of Modern TCSPC Techniques -- Detectors for Photon Counting -- Practice of TCSPC Experiments -- Final Remarks -- References.Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a remarkable technique for recording low-level light signal…
Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors -- The Development and Optimisation of High Bandwidth Bimorph Deformable Mirrors -- Deformable Mirrors with Thermal Actuators -- Technology and Operation of a Liquid Crystal Modal Wavefront Corrector -- Aberration Compensation Using Nematic Liquid Crystals -- Wireless Control of an LC Adaptive Lens -- Summary of Adaptive Optics at Stanford -- Control of…
Maxwell's Equations, Photons and the Density of States -- Interaction of Light with Matter -- Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators -- The Concept of Polaritons -- Kramers-Kronig Relations -- Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons -- Electrons in a Periodic Crystal -- Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions -- Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations -- Optical Properties of Ph…