Compact Sources of Ultrashort Pulses

• List of contributors; Acronyms and abbreviations; Preface; 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 for 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; Index.

'I highly recommend this text. It provides an excellent compact reference and a wealth of background material which should be indispensable to the expert and novice alike, while each chapter can be treated alone or considered as an integral part of this active research and development area.' J. R. Taylor, Journal of Modern Optics