These lasers generate a periodic stream of
ultrashort light pulses to create the comb.
Most of the lasers utilized in research laboratories are based on titanium: sapphire (Ti: Sa) crystals, and this type of instrument has been the dominant tool in the production of
ultrashort light pulses for over 20 years.
The change from crystalline to amorphous (storing data) and from amorphous to crystalline (erasing data) is initiated by
ultrashort light pulses.
Comb technology has already had a large impact on studies of how atoms and molecules respond to the strong electric fields obtainable in intense,
ultrashort light pulses.
Nonlinear optical processes provide the basis for important functionalities in photonics, such as frequency conversion of light, generation of
ultrashort light pulses, as well as optical processing and manipulation.
Not exact matches
These feature make
ultrashort electron pulse trains an ideal tool with which to monitor, in real time, the ultrafast processes initiated by the impact of
light oscillations onto matter.
Like many of the projects undertaken in Raskar's Camera Culture Group, the new system uses a time - of - flight camera, which fires
ultrashort bursts of laser
light into a scene and measures the time it takes their reflections to return.
«New tool to investigate the chemistry of nature: Laser - based tabletop setup generates
ultrashort XUV
light pulses.»
In order to observe the ultrafast electron motion in the inner shells of atoms with short
light pulses, the pulses must not only be
ultrashort, but very bright, and the photons delivered must have sufficiently high energy.
Anatomy of a Comb Optical frequency combs are generated by devices called mode - locked lasers, which create
ultrashort pulses of
light.
EIROforum organisations are in the midst of developing some of the most sophisticated machines ever conceived — just two examples are the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world, and the European XFEL, a
light source that will generate
ultrashort X-ray flashes up to one billion times brighter than current X-ray sources.