From photomask repair to device physics richard haight ibm tj watson research center po box 218 yorktown hts. The field of ultrafast nonlinear optics is broad and multidisciplinary, and encompasses. We demonstrate an allfiber ultrafast ytterbium laser oscillator modelocked by means of a nonlinear polarization evolution npe method realized in polarizationmaintaining pm fibers. The pulse width of ultrafast lasers is defined as several tens of. A sequence of the pm fiber pieces is shown to perform npe action while maintaining a required temporal overlap of the ordinary and extraordinary pulses propagating through it. Ultrafast laser eth zurich physics ursula keller lukas gallmann eth zurich, physics department, switzerland. She has been committed to research in ultrafast laser physics and technology development since 2000, having previously worked at the instituto superior tecnico, portugal 20002002, at the university of st. The lasers are optically pumped by 170fs short pulses with a repetition rate at 80 mhz and wavelength centred at 750 nm using a confocal microscope 4. Laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy fslibs for micro crack analysis. Recent studies have confirmed that femtosecond laser induced bulk nanograting is. The advent of highaveragepower diode lasers stimulated the development of femtosecond pulses in. It deals with all kinds of effects occurring in these lasers, but also with phenomena which can be investigated using ultrashort laser pulses. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Ultrafast fibre lasers are fundamental building blocks of many photonic systems used in industrial and medical applications as well as for scientific research.
Timeresolved spectroscopy femtsecond pulse generation. The research area of ultrafast lasers and their applications is called ultrafast laser physics and ultrafast optics. Progress in ultrafast laser processing and future prospects in. The concept of atoms was coined by the ancient greek philosophers leucippus and democritus twentyfour centuries ago. We present an overview of the different processes that can result from focusing an ultrafast laser light in the femtosecondnanosecond time regime on a host of materials, e. Ultrafast laser physics ultrafast laser physics eth zurich. The ultrafast laser physics group is engaged in developing and applying the physics of lasers, semiconductors, and measurement technologies. Single femtosecond laser beam induced nanogratings in. Effect in laser drilling of high aspect ratio microvias, laser physics 25, no. Rp photonics encyclopedia ultrafast lasers, ultrashort.
Ultrafast nonlinear optics robert thomson springer. Pdf the unique characteristics of ultrafast lasers, such as picosecond and. Lecture notes ultrafast optics electrical engineering. Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser nature physics. Gallmann will give the lecture of ultrafast laser physics during the fall semester hs 2019. Read more the nccr must is an interdisciplinary research program launched by the swiss national science foundation in 2010. Institute of applied physics ultrafast laser systems. After a brief survey of the theoretical backgrounds of the laes process and earlier laes experiments started in the 1970s, new concepts of optical gating and optical streaking for the laes processes, which can be realized by laes experiments using. Andrews, uk 20032007, subsequently joining the university of dundee in 2007. Then, each individual nanovoid can further develop into a subwavelength width crack which will eventually lead to the. Research into the threedimensional nanostructuring of photopolymers by ultrashort laser pulses has seen immense growth over the last decade. Beginning with modelocking of glass lasers in the 1960s, the development of dye. Femtosecond laser spectroscopy peter hannaford springer.