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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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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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5. Simulation of Active and Nonlinear Photonic Nano-Materials in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Framework
A numerical method is presented that unites three-dimensional finite-differnce time-domain (FDTD) computer simulations of active, nonlinear photonic...
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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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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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13. Parallel Implementation Strategiesfor Algorithms from Scientific Computing
Many applications from scientific computing are computationally intensive and can therefore benefit from a realization on a parallel or a distributed...
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13 Dynamic, One-Dimensional and Miscellaneous Problems
The previous part of this monograph makes it clear that the branch of the Mathematical Theory of Contact Mechanics, which deals with quasistatic...
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Anisotropic Substrates
A prerequisite for infrared ellipsometry investigations of semiconductor layer structures is an accurate knowledge of the substrate materials’...
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General Aspects of Nuclear Resonant Scattering
Nuclear resonant scattering (NRS) unites a number of different scattering processes that can be used to investigate properties of condensed matter....
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Dielectric Helical Films
Dielectric helical thin films (DHTF’s) are described by a homogeneous rotation of an arbitrarily oriented symmetric dielectric function tensor ɛ...
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Polaritons in Semiconductor Layer Structures
The infrared optical response of layered structures composed of polar semiconductor materials is strongly influenced by resonant excitation of...
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6 Mathematical Preliminaries
Part II provides mathematical formulations of the models, the assumptions that underlie them, their weak or variational formulations and the...
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11 Contact with Wear or Adhesion
In this chapter we present results on models of frictional contact when the wear of the contacting surfaces is taken into account. The importance of...
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3 Additional E.ects Involved in Contact
More is involved in contact than just friction, although it is the main process. Indeed, during a contact process elastic or plastic deformations of...
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Infrared Model Dielectric Functions
This chapter reviews a selection of dielectric function models progressed for lineshape analysis of (far) infrared ellipsometry data. Contributions...
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Coherent Elastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering
In the field of x-ray diffraction, the intensity and the direction of scattered waves are determined by the properties of the individual scatterers...
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1 Introduction
Considerable progress has been achieved recently in modeling and mathematical analysis of various processes involved in contact between deformable...