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New Frontiers of Spatio-Temporal Beam Shaping
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By
Ruediger Grunwald, Max-Born Institut for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
Description
"Thin-film microoptics" stands for novel types of microoptical components and systems which combine the well-known features of miniaturized
optical elements with the specific advantages of thin optical layers. This approach enables for innovative solutions in shaping light
fields in spatial, temporal and spectral domain. Low-dispersion and small-angle systems for tailoring and diagnosing laser pulses under
extreme conditions as well as VUV-capable microoptics can be realized. Continuous-relief microstructures of refractive, reflective and
hybrid characteristics are obtained by vapor deposition technologies with shadow masks in rotating systems. The book gives a comprehensive
overview on fundamental laws of microoptics, types of thin-film microoptical components, methods and constraints of their design, fabrication
and characterization, structure transfer into substrates, optical functions and applications. Recent theoretical and experimental results
of basic and applied research are addressed. Particular emphasis will be laid on the generation of localized, nondiffracting few-cycle
wavepackets of extended depth of focus and high tolerance against distortions. It is shown that the spectral interference of ultrabroadband
conical beams results in spatio-temporal structures of characteristic X-shape, so-called X-waves, which are interesting for robust optical
communication. New prospects are opened by exploiting small conical angles from nanolayer microoptics and self-apodized truncation of
Bessel beams leading to the formation of single-maximum nondiffracting beams or "needle beams". Thin-film microoptical beam shapers have
an enormous potential for future applications like the two-dimensional ultrafast optical processing, multichannel laser-matter interaction,
nonlinear spectroscopy or advanced measuring techniques.
Audience
This book is suitable for scientists, students and engineers in R&D in Optics, Laser Techniques and Photonics in Universities and Institutes, scientific libraries and military research.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Micro-Optics
3. Thin-Film Optics
4. Thin-Film Microoptics
5. Characterization
of Thin-Film Microoptics
6. Spatial Beam Shaping with Thin-Film Microoptics
7. Spatio-Temporal Beam Shaping and Characterization of Ultrashort-Pulse
Lasers
8. Outlook
References
Future Credits
Glossary
Index
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Hardbound, 306 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51746-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-51746-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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