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Product Description
From the 1st editon: This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduate students starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student learns how to generate short and ultrashort laser pulses, how to manipulate them, and how to measure them. Finally, spectroscopic implications are discussed. This rounded text gives the student an up-to-date introduction to one of the most exciting fields in laser physics. The 2nd edition will be completely revised, and will include two new chapters entitled "Coherent Control and Related Femtochemistry" and "Towards Attosecond and High Order Harmonics Generation"

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 2 reviews)

Fairly good but not excellent by Vahit Sametoglu (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

4 Stars
August 17, 2006
The second edition of this book is revised and enriched with new and hot materials. The concepts of "coherent control" and "attosecond pulses" are added as they become more and more significant. The first 3 chapters of the books do not seem very useful. Although the authors tried their best, especially the discussion of "mode-locking" is not as clearly stated as Demtroder's "Laser Spectroscopy". More vivid, illustrative and tangible examples would be very useful. The rest of the book can be considered good and in my opinion this books does not deserve more than 4 stars.

This short book is an excellent overview by Eric Landahl (USA)

4 Stars
March 26, 2000
I use femtosecond lasers in my graduate work, and I found this book an excellent source of review material in preparing for my oral examinations. It is not very detailed or mathematical, but has excellent phenomenonological discussions of a variety of laser properties and techniques. It is also handy because it is fairly recent. I found particularly useful the sections on amplification, semiconductor lasers, and ultrashort diagnostics. This book is not a comprehensive guide to building and using an ultrashort pulse laser system because it lacks so much detail. However, the equations are explained very well, and the references seem fairly comprehensive. The book is also completely missing a discussion of fiber laser and ultrashort pulse propogation in fibers. The section on nonlinear ultrashort optics is also far too brief.

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