文件名称：Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena
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Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena
Almost 10 years have passed since the first edition of Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena. The field of ultrafast optics and spectroscopy has evolved and matured tremendously; tools and techniques available only in research laboratories 10 years ago are now common in many laboratories outside physics and engineering and have been commercialized. During the same period the field has progressed at an astonishing speed, opening new directions, constantly challenging the frontiers of high field science and ultrafast spectroscopy. Our provocative statement from the first edition predicting attosecond pulses at the end of the 1990s materialized. To properly account for the developments of the past decade each chapter of the first edition would need to be expanded into a whole book. Having said this it is clear that this second edition, like the first edition, cannot be an attempt to review and summarize the latest developments in the field. Periodic updates can be found in the proceedings of the conferences on ultrafast phenomena and on ultrafast optics held alternately every other year. However, as is typical for a mature scientific area, despite the dramatic progress a number of fundamental subjects have emerged. These topics, not much different from the material covered in the first edition, are what students and researchers entering the field need to learn.