Mono-Cycle Photonics and Optical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy [electronic resource] : Route to Femtosecond Ångstrom Technology / edited by Mikio Yamashita, Hidemi Shigekawa, Ryuji Morita.
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences ; 99Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005Description: XX, 392 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540271406
- 620.115 23
- T174.7
- TA418.9.N35

Nonlinear Propagation Theory for Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses beyond the Slowly-Varying-Envelope Approximation (SVEA) -- Generation of Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Active Chirp Compensation for Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Amplitude and Phase Characterization of Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses -- Feedback Field Control for Optical Pulse Generation in the Monocycle Region -- Field Manipulation of Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Fundamental of Laser-Assisted Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) -- Spatially-Resolved Surface Photovoltage Measurement -- Atomic-Level Surface Phenomena Controlled by Femtosecond Optical Pulses -- Femtosecond-Time-Resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy -- Outlook.
"Mono-Cycle Photonics and Optical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" deals with both the ultrashort laser-pulse technology in the few- to mono-cycle region and the laser-surface-controlled scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM) extending into the spatiotemporal extreme technology. The former covers the theory of nonlinear pulse propagation beyond the slowly-varing-envelope approximation, the generation and active chirp compensation of ultrabroadband optical pulses, the amplitude and phase characterization of few- to mono-cycle pulses, and the feedback field control for the mono-cycle-like pulse generation. In addition, the wavelength-multiplex shaping of ultrabroadband pulse is described. The latter covers the CW-laser-excitation STM, the femtosecond-time-resolved STM and atomic-level surface phenomena controlled by femtosecond pulses.