Advancements in Ultrafast Non-linear Optics and Non-linear Optical Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 2170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear optics; plasma; fiber laser; laser spectroscopy; frequency comb
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of ultrafast nonlinear optics deals with nonlinear processes performed by ultrafast lasers, i.e., processes occurring on a timescale of picoseconds, femtoseconds, or faster. In recent years, tremendous developments in the physical world have been enabled the advent of ultrafast lasers. One of the most important technologies behind this has been chirped pulse amplification, which is the 2018 Nobel physics prize-winning technology invented by Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland. Ultrafast nonlinear optics has made an important impact on the development of medicine, biology, material processing, and other fields.
Therefore, we are announcing this Special Issue of Materials, entitled “Advancements in Ultrafast Non-linear Optics and Non-linear Optical Materials”. We invite original contributions to capture the current state of research related to nonlinear processes performed by picosecond/femtosecond/attosecond laser pulses and optical materials used or fabricated via ultrafast processes. The scope of this Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, ultrafast nonlinearities in the context of light propagation, e.g. the Kerr effect, Raman scattering and harmonic generation; ultrafast excitation, saturation and relaxation phenomena, e.g. saturable absorbers in mode-lock laser oscillators; ultrafast laser induced ionization and dissociation, e.g. laser filamentation, multiple-photon ionization, and ultrafast laser spectroscopy; ultrafast processes in laser systems, such as fabrications of CW or mode-locked laser systems, frequency combs, and dynamics during pulse formation in lasers (soliton generation) and understanding, modeling, monitoring, and controlling material behaviors during ultrafast laser processes.
We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts for this Special Issue on “Advancements in Ultrafast Non-linear Optics and Non-linear Optical Materials” in the form of full research papers, communications, and review articles. We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Shuai Yuan
Dr. Wei Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser systems
- ultrafast nonlinearities
- ultrafast laser spectroscopy
- ultrafast phenomena
- laser materials
- mode-locked lasers
- ultrafast devices
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