Femtosecond Technology: From Basic Research to Application Prospects

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Femtosecond Technology and Its Industrial Impact....Pages 1-11
Technology Roadmap for the Japanese Opto-Electronics Industry....Pages 12-28
Technology Roadmap for Optical Communication — A North American Perspective....Pages 29-48
Structural Change in Industry and Reorganization of R&D Systems in Network-Oriented Societies....Pages 49-58
Femtosecond Semiconductor-Based Optoelectonic Devices for Optical Communications and Signal-Processing Systems....Pages 59-78
Generation, Control and Processing of Ultrafast Optical Signals by Electrooptic Modulation/Deflection....Pages 79-91
Subharmonic Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies....Pages 92-106
All-Optical Access Node Technologies....Pages 107-121
Ultrafast All-Optical Switch Using Low-Temperature-Grown InGaAs/InAlAs Multiple-Quantum Wells....Pages 122-133
High Bandwidth Photodetectors....Pages 134-151
Coherent Tunable THz Oscillation by Nonlinear Optics....Pages 152-163
Multi-Gap Photoconductive Switches Fabricated by a Scanning Probe Microscope....Pages 164-174
High Speed Quantum Dot Lasers: Phonon Bottleneck Issue in Quantum Dot Lasers....Pages 175-183
Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells....Pages 184-197
Femtosecond Studies of Semiconductor Microcavities and VCSELs....Pages 198-210
Quantum Dots and the Expected Role in Femtosecond Devices....Pages 211-221
Ultrafast Interband-Resonant Light Modulation by Intersubband-Resonant Light in Quantum Wells....Pages 222-233
Fabrication Technology of Semiconductor Nanometer Structures Towards Femtosecond Optoelectronics....Pages 234-244
Intense Sub-10-fs Laser Pulses: Pushing the Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics....Pages 245-257
Low-Threshold All-Solid-State Femtosecond Lasers....Pages 258-273
All-Solid-State Cr:LiSAF Femtosecond Lasers....Pages 274-283
Femtosecond Pulse Generation around 1.3 µm Employing Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors (SESAM)....Pages 284-292
Ultrashort Pulse Application to Dimensional Measurements....Pages 293-302
Femtosecond X-Ray Pulse Generation by Using a Low Emittance Electron Beam and a High Brightness Laser for Measurement Applications....Pages 303-312
Femtosecond Quantum Beam Science and New Pump-and-Probe Analysis....Pages 313-327
Ultrafast Functional Materials for Femtosecond Optoelectronics....Pages 328-349
Ultrafast Relaxations in One-Dimensional Systems: π-Conjugated Polymers, J-Aggregates, and Metal-Halogen Chain Complexes....Pages 350-363
Femtosecond Dynamics of Supramolecular Structures in Condensed Phase....Pages 364-375
Femtosecond Molecular Photonics Materials....Pages 376-388
Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochromic Systems....Pages 389-400
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Glass Materials Containing Metal Nanoparticles....Pages 401-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-426