Femtosecond Technology

The new femtosecond technology is the basis for fast transmission of large volumes of information. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals, explains the realisation of this concept and gives guidance to the user in optical data transmission. It appeals to researchers, process engineers and advanced students.

This book gives the first application oriented survey of femtosecond technology.

Inhalt
I Introduction.- I-1 Femtosecond Technology and Its Industrial Impact.- II Optoelectronics Technology Roadmap and Industry.- II-1 Technology Roadmap for the Japanese Opto-Electronics Industry.- II-2 Technology Roadmap for Optical Communication - A North American Perspective.- II-3 Structural Change in Industry and Reorganization of R&D Systems in Network-Oriented Societies.- III Ultrafast Optoelectronics for Telecommunications.- III-1 Femtosecond Semiconductor-Based Optoelectonic Devices for Optical Communications and Signal-Processing Systems.- III-2 Generation, Control and Processing of Ultrafast Optical Signals by Electrooptic Modulation/Deflection.- III-3 Subharmonic Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies.- III-4 All-Optical Access Node Technologies.- III-5 Ultrafast All-Optical Switch Using Low-Temperature-Grown InGaAs/InAlAs Multiple-Quantum Wells.- III-6 High Bandwidth Photodetectors.- III-7 Coherent Tunable THz Oscillation by Nonlinear Optics.- III-8 Multi-Gap Photoconductive Switches Fabricated by a Scanning Probe Microscope.- IV Semiconductor Quantum Structures for Femtosecond Devices.- IV-1 High Speed Quantum Dot Lasers: Phonon Bottleneck Issue in Quantum Dot Lasers.- IV-2 Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells.- IV-3 Femtosecond Studies of Semiconductor Microcavities and VCSELs..- IV-4 Quantum Dots and the Expected Role in Femtosecond Devices.- IV-5 Ultrafast Interband-Resonant Light Modulation by Intersubband-Resonant Light in Quantum Wells.- IV-6 Fabrication Technology of Semiconductor Nanometer Structures Towards Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- V Femtosecond Lasers and Measurement Applications.- V-1 Intense Sub-10-fs Laser Pulses: Pushing the Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics.- V-2 Low-Threshold All-Solid-State Femtosecond Lasers.- V-3 All-Solid-State Cr:LiSAF Femtosecond Lasers.- V-4 Femtosecond Pulse Generation around 1.3µm Employing Semiconductor saturable Absorber Mirrors (SESAM).- V-5 Ultrashort Pulse Application to Dimensional Measurements.- V-6 Femtosecond X-Ray Pulse Generation by Using a Low Emittance Electron Beam and a High Brightness Laser for Measurement Applications.- V-7 Femtosecond Quantum Beam Science and New Pump-and-Probe Analysis.- VI Materials for Femtosecond Applications.- VI-1 Ultrafast Functional Materials for Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- VI-2 Ultrafast Relaxations in One-Dimensional Systems; ?-Conjugated Polymers, J-Aggregates, and Metal-Halogen Chain Complexes.- VI-3 Femtosecond Dynamics of Supramolecular Structures in Condensed Phase.- VI-4 Femtosecond Molecular Photonics Materials.- VI-5 Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochromic Systems.- VI-6. Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Glass Materials Containing Metal Nanoparticles.