Ultrashort Pulse Lasers and Ultrafast Phenomena

This book describes the basic physical principles of techniques to generate and ultrashort pulse lasers and applications to ultrafast spectroscopy of various materials covering chemical molecular compounds, solid-state materials, exotic novel materials including topological materials, biological molecules and bio- and synthetic polymers. It introduces non-linear optics which provides the basics of generation and measurement of pulses and application examples of ultrafast spectroscopy to solid state physics. Also it provide not only material properties but also material processing procedures. The book describes also details of the world shortest visible laser and DUV lasers developed by the author’s group. It is composed of the following 12 Sections: The special features of this book is that it is written by a single author with a few collaborators in a systematic way. Hence it provides a comprehensive and systematic description of the research field of ultrashort pulse lasers and ultrafast spectroscopy.

Generation of ultrashort pulses in deep ultraviolet to near infrared
Generation of ultrashort pulses in terahertz
Carrier envelope phase (CEP)
Simple NLO processes with a few colors
Multi-color involved NLO processes
Multi-color ultrashort pulse generation
NLO materials
NLO processes in time-resolved spectroscopy
Low dimension materials
Conductors and superconductors
Chemical reactions and material processing
Photobiological reactions

Author Biography

Takayoshi Kobayashi,

Titles: Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Chair professor of National Chiao-Tung University, Guest professors of Univ. of Electro-Communications and Tokyo University of Science, Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo

Research activities

For more than 35 years, research on the development of ultrafast lasers and on ultrafast spectroscopy. From about 7 years ago, the development of photothermal super-resolution microscope and its applications to biological and medical research. > 660 original papers in international journals and >300 review articles.

Awards:

2000-present: Fellow of the Optical Society of America

2005-present: Chair Professor, National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan.

2011: Humboldt Award, Outstanding Research in the Development of Ultrashort Pulse Laser and Ultrafast Processes in Molecules

2013: Fellow of the Chemical Society of Japan

2015: Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (at present Optica)