ultrafast-physics

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Physics of femtosecond-to-picosecond optical pulses and their interaction with matter. Generation: passive mode-locking (saturable absorbers, SESAMs), Kerr-lens mode-locking (Ti:sapphire, Yb:KYW), chirped-pulse amplification…

Passive mode-locking via saturable absorber / SESAM
Kerr-lens mode-locking: self-focusing via n₂·I in Ti:sapphire
Optical soliton: anomalous GVD balances self-phase modulation
Fourier TBP: Gaussian Δτ·Δν = 2 ln 2/π ≈ 0.441 (transform-limited)
SHG phase-matching: η ∝ sinc²(ΔkL/2); coherence length L_c = π/|Δk|
GVD broadening of chirp-free Gaussian: τ_out = τ_in√(1 + (L/L_D)²)
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