Femtosecond Photonics: Fundamental Phenomena and Device Behavior

Abstract

This report describes a number of different research projects carried out under this contract. Emphasis is placed on progress made during the third and final year; but a listing of publication and reports covering all three years of the contract is attached. Titles of the individual projects herein include: Picosecond Optical Switching, Additive Pulse Modelocking ; Ultrashort Pulse Generation in Titanium Sapphire; Additive Pulse Modelocking in Diode Pumped Nd:YAG and YLF, Multistage High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Amplifiers, Control and Spontaneous Emission with Semiconductor Microcavities, Carrier Dynamics in metals and Semiconductors, Femtosecond Studies of Superconductors, Time Domain Interferometry, Nonlinear Dynamics in Active Semiconductor Devices, Four Wave Mixing and Information Storage in Photorefractive Crystals and Impulsive Excitation of Coherent Phonons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 10, 1992
Accession Number
ADA250506

Entities

People

  • E. P. Ippen
  • H. A. Haus
  • J. G. Fujimoto

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electro-Optics
  • Frequency Combs
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Diodes
  • Laser Pulses
  • Laser Science
  • Lasers
  • Light (Electromagnetic Radiation)
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Refractive Index
  • Repetition Rate
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Solid State Lasers
  • Wave Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics