Ultrafast Lasers and Optics for Experimentalists

Many modern spectroscopic techniques demand the use of light sources with ultrashort pulse durations, broad bandwidths and high intensities. Ultrafast lasers produce pulses that can satisfy all these demands, and so their use has expanded beyond laser physics labs. They are now increasingly commonplace in the physical, chemical and life sciences where they are used to probe ever faster fleeting chemical and molecular processes. This has moved experimental applications from specialist labs into the hands of scientists with very different backgrounds, often unite by a lack of formal training in ultrafast lasers and optics. Book jacket.