ABSTRACT
The generation of ultrashort optical pulses is an extremely exciting and rapidly growing field. This is primarily due to the fact that these short optical pulses allow the probing of fundamental physics, both in structure and time scale, of light-matter interactions in the femtosecond and attosecond regimes. Additionally, the short temporal duration of these pulses can be exploited for a variety of commercial applications in areas encompassing material processing, optical microscopy, data storage, optical communications, ranging, and novel noninvasive imaging.
