Mono-Cycle Photonics and Optical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Subtitle: Route to Femtosecond Ångstrom Technology (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)
Contributors: M. Yamashita (Editor); H. Shigekawa (Editor); R. Morita (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9783540214465
Subjects: Applied optics; Microscopy; Science/Mathematics; Nanotechnology; Science; Nanostructures; Physics; Technology / Nanotechnology
First sentence: The recent development of ultrashort pulse lasers as well as spectral-broadening and pulse-compression techniques permit us to use optical pulses which have a duration as short as few-to-mono optical cycles and a bandwidth of several hundred terahertz.