This book summarizes the results presented at the 15th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena and provides an up-to-date view of this important field. It presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including both ultrafast optical technology and the study of ultrafast phenomena. It covers picosecond, femtosecond, and attosecond processes relevant to applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

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InhaltsangabeAttoseconds and High Harmonics.- Sub 100 attosecond XUV pulses.- Quasi phase matching of high harmonic generation in waveguides using counter-propagating beams.- Observation of Intra-molecular Vibrational Dynamics using High-Harmonic Generation as a Probe.- Ultrafast Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Si with 20fs Resolution Using HH Radiation.- Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from Ions using a Capillary Discharge.- Tunable isolated attosecond pulses.- Measurement and control of attosecond pulse formation.- Continuum Harmonic Radiation in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region Using Synthesized Sub-10-fs Two-Color Field.- Basis for ultrafast imaging of molecular orbitals with high-order harmonic generation.- Adaptive Spatial Control of High-Harmonic Generation.- A proposed tabletop atto-second pulse coherent X-ray source.- Attosecond pulse production and orbital tomography with orthogonally polarized two-color few-cycle pulses.- Isolated EUV Pulses via CEP-insensitive Nonlinear Stabilization in a Waveguide.- Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Holography: Dynamic Monitoring of Surface Deformation.- Femtosecond VUV Photon Pulses for Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect on Pt(111).- Is high harmonic generation a single-active-electron process?.- Multi-Cycle Driven Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation.- Generation and High-Power Propagation.- Generation of 2 Terawatt Sub-8 fs Laser Pulses using Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Holographic Snapshots of Laser Wakefields.- Phase-Mask Control and Stabilization of Optical Filamentation.- Development of a Multi-Terawatt Ultrabroadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier.- High energy self-phase-stabilized pulses by difference frequency generation and optical parametric amplification.- 5.1 fs pulses by filamentation - future prospective of self-compression to one optical cycle.- Interfering Lasing Filaments in Dense Absorbing Media.- Non-relativistic Magnetic Continuum Generation.- Mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with dispersion compensation by a fiber taper.- Soliton-effect pulse compression of supercontinuum in photonic nanowires.- eXtreme Chirped Pulse Amplification using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.- Direct Comparison of the Hollow-core Fiber and Filamentation Techniques for Few-cycle Pulse Generation.- Grism based stretcher/compressor system for amplified, femtosecond kilohertz lasers.- High Power Femtosecond IR Laser Source based on Noncollinear Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Generation of high-fidelity sub-10-fs milIijoule pulses through filamentation for relativistic laser-matter experiments at 1 kHz.- MHz-rate white light generation using a novel positive-dispersion cavity-dumped Ti: sapphire laser.- High Spectral Irradiance White-Light Continuum Z-scan.- Generation of 460nm femtosecond laser by sum frequency synchronized picosecond Nd:YVO4 laser and femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser.- Generation of Sub-3-fs Optical Pulses Using Induced Phase Modulation in an Ar-Gas-Filled Hollow Fiber.- Multi-wavelength Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers on the Assistance of High-nonlinear Photonic-crystal Fibers.- Combs.- Femtosecond enhancement cavity - direct frequency comb spectroscopy and coherent extreme nonlinear optics.- Spectral Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping of a Mode-Locked Laser and a Phase Modulated CW Laser.- Mapping of the Optical Frequency Comb to the Atom Velocity Comb.- Demonstration of Frequency Comb Laser Spectroscopy in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet.- Determination of the CEO Phase - ionization of He with Circularly polarized 5.5-fs Pulses.- Direct distinction between phase shift and time delay with carrier-envelope phase-controlled pulses.- Spectral Dependence of Phase Noise of Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs.- Ultrafast Optics.- Shaped UV Pulses with 20 fs Substructures.- Direct UV-AOPDF ultrafast laser pulse shaping.- Acousto-optic shaping of femtosecond pulses directly in the mid-IR.- Measurement of the Comple