文档介绍：Femtosecond
Laser
Spectroscopy
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Peter Hannaford
Femtosecond
Laser
Spectroscopy
Springer
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Contents
Contributing authors xi
Foreword xv
Preface xix
1. Phase Controlled Femtosecond Lasers for Sensitive,
Precise and Wide Bandwidth Nonlinear Spectroscopy 1
Jun Ye
1. Introduction to femtosecond optical b 1
2. Precision atomic spectroscopy – structure and dynamics 8
3. Molecular Spectroscopy aided by femtosecond optical
b 12
4. hyperfine interactions, optical frequency standards and
clocks 14
5. Extension of phase-coherent bs to the mid-IR spectral
region 19
6. Femtosecond lasers and external optical cavities 21
References 26
2. Supercontinuum and High-Order Harmonics: “Extreme”
Coherent Sources for Atomic Spectroscopy and Attophysics 29
Marco Bellini
1. Introduction 29
2. High-resolution spectroscopy with ultrashort pulses 30
vi Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy
3. High-order harmonics 33
Basic principles 33
Phase coherence in harmonic generation 33
Some insight into the microscopic generation process 35
Collinear, phase-coherent, harmonic pulses 37
Ramsey spectroscopy with high-order harmonics 39
4. Supercontinuum 42
Basic principles 42
Phase preservation in the supercontinuum generation
process 43
Collinear, phase-coherent, supercontinuum pulses 44
Multiple-beam interference from an array of super-
continuum sources: a b 49
5. Phase pr