nano-tera.ch annual 2012
Ultrafast lasers
… generate coherent light pulses with pico- or femtosecond duration
observe and use fast dynamics• understand chemical reaction dynamics• fast communication• …concentrate in time and spaceachieve extremely high intensities• material processing• multi-photon biomedical imaging• …access ultrashort time scales
R. Aviles-Espinosa, G. Filippidis, C. Hamilton, G. Malcolm, K. J. Weingarten, T. Südmeyer, Y. Barbarin, U. Keller, S. I. C. O Santos,D. Artigas and P. Loza-Alvarez, “Compact ultrafast semiconductor disk laser: targeting GFP based nonlinear applications in livingorganisms”, Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 739-747, 2011