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Charged and magnetized particle motion around a static black hole in the Starobinsky–Bel–Robinson gravity
In this work we focus on the effects of Starobinsky–Bel–Robinson (SBR) gravity parameter and external magnetic field on the motion of charged test...
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Neurosurgical Applications
The high precision of femtosecond laser ablation makes it an interesting tool for neurosurgical applications. The resection of arbitrary-shaped...
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Few-Cycle Pulses Directly from a Laser
Advances in ultrashort-pulse laser technology have led to the generation of few-cycle optical pulses directly from oscillators at high repetition...
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Ultrashort Pulse Thin-Disk Lasers and Amplifiers
This Chapter deals with the generation and the amplification of ultrashort pulses in mode-locked oscillators and multipass amplifiers based on the...
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Carrier–Envelope Phase Stabilization of Single and Multiple Femtosecond Lasers
The basic concepts, technical implementation, and known limitations of actively stabilizing the carrier–envelope phase of a few-cycle pulse train are...
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Monolithic Silicon Light Sources
Monolithic silicon light sources (LEDs and lasers) could have a significant impact when integrated on silicon chips. After a general introduction to...
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Ultrashort Pulse Lasers and Amplifiers Based on Nd:YVO4 and Yb:YAG Bulk Crystals
This Chapter focuses on the generation of ultrashort pulses and their amplification to high energies in Nd:YVO4 and Yb:YAG bulk crystals....
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Cutting of Diamond
For a number of years, diamond has been used as a material for cutting tools. Since conventional machining of diamond is difficult and expensive,...
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Ophthalmic Applications
Femtosecond photodisruption opens new pathways in refractive surgery due to its precise interaction mechanism with biological tissue. The quality of...
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Introduction to Femtosecond Technology
Femtosecond technology, with its ultrashort light pulses, is an innovative laser technology that can be used for multiple applications, e.g., in...
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Characterization of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime Using Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction
Interferometry provides a very sensitive and accurate means to measure the phase of an optical field. It has been applied with great effect in the...
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Subfemtosecond XUV Pulses: Attosecond Metrology and Spectroscopy
The generation of ever shorter pulses is a key to exploring the dynamic behavior of matter on ever shorter timescales. Recent developments have...
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Silicon Fundamentals for Photonics Applications
The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced our ability to engineer the physical properties of...
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Nonclassical Light from Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots
In this article the recent progress in the generation of nonclassical light using semiconductor quantum dots is reviewed. Photon antibunching and...
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Monolithic Silicon Microphotonics
The technology evolution of optical interconnection is driven by the distance × product required for a given link. As such optical fiber deployment...
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The Structure Functions F2 c , F L and F L c in the Framework of the k T Factorization
We present the perturbative parts of the structure functions F2 c and F L...
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B Physics and CP Violation
After an introduction to the Standard-Model description of CP violation, we turn to the main focus of these lectures, the B-meson system. Since...
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Deep Inelastic J/ψ Production at HERA in the Colour Singlet Model with k T -Factorization
We consider J/ψ meson production in ep deep inelastic scattering in the colour singlet model using the k T...
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Heavy Flavor Production off Protons and in a Nuclear Environment
These lectures present an overview of the current status of the QCD based phenomenology for open and hidden heavy flavor production at high energies....