Compact Sources of Ultrashort Pulses

Abstract

1. Short pulse generation / H.A. Haus -- 2. Passive modelocking in solid state lasers / Thomas Brabec, Stephen M.J. Kelly and Ferenc Krausz -- 3. Compact modelocked solid state lasers pumped by laser diodes / John R.M. Barr -- 4. Modelocking of all-fiber lasers / Irl N. Duling III and Michael L. Dennis -- 5. Nonlinear polarization evolution in passively modelocked fiber lasers / Martin E. Fermann -- 6. Ultrafast vertical cavity semiconductor lasers / Wenbin Jiang and John Bowers -- 7. High power ultrafast semiconductor injection diode lasers / Peter J. Delfyett -- 8. The hybrid soliton pulse source / Paul A. Morton -- 9. Monolithic colliding pulse modelocked diode lasers / Ming C. Wu and Young-Kai Chen.