Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Generation Up to Femtosecond

This article on the generation of short (ns) to ultrashort laser pulses down to the femtosecond (fs) is associated with the three articles on solid-state laser sources: foundations [AF3275] , crystalline luminescence applied to laser sources [AF3276] and crystals and nonlinear optics [AF3278] .

The aim is to demonstrate the need for laser sources with ever shorter pulses, and to describe the various physical methods, especially optical, required for their production, while giving the main physical parameters for characterization.

After defining the vocabulary of the basic notions of light pulse propagation, we detail the triggering methods used to generate short pulses on the nanosecond and picosecond scales, then ultrashort pulses on the femtosecond scale, along with some original applications and perspectives.

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