Ultrafast Optics V [Paperback]

This book brings together in a single volume the most up-to-date results in the field presented at Ultrafast Optics and Applications of High Field and Short Wavelength Sources 2005. The volume contains keynote and invited contributions together with carefully selected regular contributions. The book aims at the highest level of presentation to make it useful as a reference for those working in the field.

Part I Attosecond metrology: Progress in attosecond metrology.- Attosecond dynamics of electron wave packets in intense laser fields.- Part II Attosecond high harmonic generation: Attosecond Pulse Characterization by XUV Nonlinear Optics..- Spectral interference of attosecond light pulses.- Frequency Resolved Autocorrelation Measurement for Characterization of an Attoseconod Pulse Train.- Characterization of attosecond pulse trains.- Part III Carrier-Envelop Phase I: High-harmonic generation at 100 MHz repetition frequency using a femtosecond enhancement cavity.- Effects of the carrier-envelope phase in the multiphoton ionization regime.- Carrier-envelope phase detection by interference between surface harmonics..- Coherent control by carrier-envelope phase in an optical poling process.- Phase-Coherent Spectrum from Ultrabroadband Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite Lasers Covering the Visible to the Infrared.- Part IV Carrier-Envelop Phase II: Coherent synthesis of multicolor femtosecond pulses.- Quasi-synchronous pumping of mode-locked few-cycle Titanium Sapphire lasers.- Ultrasimple Ultrabroadband Alignment-Free Ultrashort Pulse Measurement Device.- Measurement of Group Velocity Distortion Due to Ultrafast Index of Refraction Transients.- Frequency-domain phase conjugator for a few-cycle and a few-nJ optical pulses.- Part V High field physics and applications I: Relativistic Optics: A new Route to Attosecond Physics And Relativistic Engineering.- Electron acceleration under strong radiation damping.- Monoenergetic electron acceleration in a high-densil“g