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Definition: the area of laser physics dealing with ultrashort processes

Ultrafast laser physics is the area of laser physics which is dealing with "ultrafast" processes in lasers, i.e., processes occurring on a time scale of picoseconds, femtoseconds, or faster. Of particular importance are processes concerning the generation of ultrashort pulses of light. Examples for such phenomena are:

It can also be of interest how other phenomena, e.g. chromatic dispersion, influence ultrafast processes.

There is a wider area called ultrafast optics which also covers phenomena outside lasers.

See also: ultrafast optics, mode locking, laser physics, pulse propagation modeling

Categories: lasers, pulses

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