Book description
A comprehensive account of the latest developments and applications in
this rapidly developing field, covering a wide range of topics, such as
power scaling and short pulse generation, dispersion management and
modeling, broadband supercontinuum generation and wavelength tailoring.
The book brings together contributions from the world's leading experts
at major collaborative research centers throughout Europe, Australia,
Russia and the USA. Each chapter presents a tutorial style introduction
to the selected topic suitable for scientists, researchers and experts,
as well as graduate and postgraduate students with a basic background in
optics.
PROF. OLEG G. OKHOTNIKOV (Tampere University, Finland) was awarded
the Ph. D. (1981) and D. Sc. (1992) from Russian Academy of Sciences
both in Laser Physics. Since 1999 he has been a full-time Professor at
Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology. His
experimental background includes mode-locked and single-frequency
tuneable semiconductor and fibre lasers. He has a substantial experience
in advanced diode-pumped fibre lasers and amplifiers, spectroscopy of
rare-earth laser materials, and semiconductor lasers. Other research
topics include semiconductor disk lasers and photonic band gap
structures. He published more than 200 journal papers, 150 conference
presentations and holds 6 patents.
