This text offers an introduction to the phenomena of ultra short lasers describing how this technology can be used to examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics and quantum mechanics. The book combines theoretical backgrounds and experimental techniques and will serve as a manual on designing and constructing femtosecond ("faster than electronics") systems or experiments from scratch. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised an updated to include the most up-to-date information available, for example the new theoretical and experimental developments in ultrashort pulse second harmonic generation. These include chirped pulse second harmonic generation, configurations for third harmonic generation and compression in second harmonic generation, using wavefront tilt.

*Provides an easy to follow guide through "faster than electronics" probing and detection methods
*THE manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems and experiments
*Discusses essential technology for applications in micro-machining, femtochemistry, and medical imaging

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