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Last update: RNDr. Vladimír Kopecký, Ph.D. (09.05.2023)
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Last update: doc. RNDr. Martin Kozák, Ph.D. (02.05.2019)
Rullière, Claude (Ed.): Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005 J.-C. Diels, W. Rudolph: Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena, Elsevier, Heidelberg, 2006 C. D. Lin, Anh-Thu Le, Cheng Jin, Hui Wei: Attosecond and Strong-Field Physics: Principles and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018 J. Shah: Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Nanostructures, Springer, Berlin, 1996 Kärtner, F. X.: Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Generation and Its Applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004 Boyd, R. V.: Nonlinear Optics, Academic Press, San Diego, 1992 |
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Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Malý, DrSc. (02.05.2023)
1. Introduction, motivation and important applications of ultrashort laser pulses. 2. Ultrashort pulse propagation in linear media, dispersion compensation. 3. Ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear media, nonlinear pulse compression, wavelength conversion. 4. Generation of ultrashort pulses by mode-locking, theory of active and passive mode-locking, Haus master equation. 5. Femtosecond lasers – types, typical setups. Femtosecond amplifiers, optical parametric amplifiers and oscillators. 6. Characterization of femtosecond laser pulses. Pulse shaping. 7. Femtosecond frequency comb, carrier-envelope phase stabilization. Noise sources and its reduction in experiments. 8. High harmonic generation, attosecond pulses, characterization. 9. Generation and measurement of THz pulses. 10. Generation of coherent X-ray pulses using free-electron lasers (X-FEL). |