ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA - A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Citation
Td. Donnelly et C. Grossman, ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA - A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES, American journal of physics, 66(8), 1998, pp. 677-685
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
66
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
677 - 685
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1998)66:8<677:UP-ALE>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We present a set of experiments that introduce students to ultrafast s cience. We discuss the relationship between the description of an ultr ashort laser pulse in the frequency domain and the time domain. Using experimental results we demonstrate that this relationship is constrai ned by the lower limit of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Studen ts carrying out the experiments will become familiar with ultrafast te chniques, such as autocorrelation and laser cavity design, as well as various other concepts such as dispersion, Fourier transformation, int erference, and nonlinear optics. (C) 1998 American Association of Phys ics Teachers.