Markus Braun
Peter Gilch
Wolfgang Zinth
(Eds.)

2008

During the last decade, the sources for ultrashort laser pulses developed from homebuilt prototype systems requiring tedious alignment by specialists into commercial turn-key products. Today they deliver laser pulses with durations of a few femtoseconds (1 fs = 10−15 s) and cover a wide range of pulse energies and repetition rates.