Table of Contents
Alfano’s The Supercontinuum Laser Source 2/e
Contents
New Preface
1989 Edition Preface
Contributors
Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter 1 Theory of Self Phase Modulation and Spectral Boradening
Y.R. Shen and Guo-Zhen Yang
Chapter 2 Supercontinuum Generation and Condensed Matter
Q.Z. Wang, P.P. Ho, and R.R. Alfano
Chapter 3 Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Dispersive Fibers
Govind P. Agrawal
Chapter 4 Cross-Phase Modulation: A New Technique for Controlling the
Spectral, Temporal, and Spatial Properties of Ultrashort Pulses
P.L. Baldeck, P.P. Ho, and R.R. Alfano
Chapter 5 Simple Models of Self-Phase and Induced-Phase Modulation
Jamal T. Manassah
Chapter 6 Self-steepening of Optical Pulses
B.R. Suydam
Chapter 7 Self-focusing and Continuum Generation in Gases
Paul B. Corkum and Claude Rolland
Chapter 8 Utilization of UV and IR Supercontinua in Gas-Phase
Subpicosecond Kinetic Spectroscopy
J.H. Glownia, J. Misewich, and P.P. Sorokin
Chapter 9 Applications of Supercontinuum: Present and Future
R.Dorsinville, P.P. Ho, Jamal T. Manassah, and R.R. Alfano
Chapter 10 Pulse Compression in Single-Mode Fibers—Picoseconds to Femtoseconds
A.M. Johnson and C.V. Shank
Index
Part II: New Developments
Chapter 11 Coherence Properties of the Supercontinuum Source
I. Zeylikovich and R.R. Alfano
Chapter 12 Supercontinuum Generation in Materials (Solids, Liquids, Gases, Air)
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 13 Supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 14 Supercontinuum in wavelength division multiplex telecommunication
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 15 Femtosecond Pump – Supercontinuum Probe for Applications in Semiconductors, Biology and Chemistry
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 16 Supercontinuum in optical coherence tomography
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 17 Supercontinuum in fs carrier-envelope phase stabilization
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 18 Supercontinuum in ultrafast pulse compression
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 19 Supercontinuum in time and frequency metrology
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 20 Supercontinuum in Atmospheric Science
Summary
Updated References
Chapter 21 Coherence of the Supercontinuum
Summary
Updated References
