Editors' Picks Collection: Ultrafast Phenomena

To honor its 40th Anniversary, the editors of Optics Letters selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over the journal's history. Below is a collection of articles in the area of Ultrafast Phenomena.

Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in this area.

  1. Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation

    R. L. Fork, C. H. Brito Cruz, P. C. Becker, and C. V. Shank

    Opt. Letters 12(7) 483-485 (1987)

  2. Group-delay measurement using the Fourier transform of an interferometric cross correlation generated by white light

    Kazunori Naganuma, Kazuo Mogi, and Hajime Yamada

    Opt. Letters 15(7) 393-395 (1990)

  3. Collapse of optical pulses

    Yaron Silberberg

    Opt. Letters 15(22) 1282-1284 (1990)

  4. Three-dimensional optical data storage in refractive media by two-photon point excitation

    James H. Strickler and Watt W. Webb

    Opt. Letters 16(22) 1780-1782 (1991)

  5. 77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser

    K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson

    Opt. Letters 18(13) 1080-1082 (1993)

  6. Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy

    Stefan W. Hell and Jan Wichmann

    Opt. Letters 19(11) 780-782 (1994)

  7. Subfemtosecond pulses

    P. B. Corkum, N. H. Burnett, and M. Y. Ivanov

    Opt. Letters 19(22) 1870-1872 (1994)

  8. Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air

    A. Braun, G. Korn, X. Liu, D. Du, J. Squier, and G. Mourou

    Opt. Letters 20(1) 73-75 (1995)

  9. Optical pulse compression to 5 fs at a 1-MHz repetition rate

    Andrius Baltuška, Zhiyi Wei, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, and Douwe A. Wiersma

    Opt. Letters 22(2) 102-104 (1997)

  10. Adaptive femtosecond pulse compression

    D. Yelin, D. Meshulach, and Y. Silberberg

    Opt. Letters 22(23) 1793-1795 (1997)

  11. Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser

    R. Ell, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, J. G. Fujimoto, E. P. Ippen, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, T. Tschudi, M. J. Lederer, A. Boiko, and B. Luther-Davies

    Opt. Letters 26(6) 373-375 (2001)

  12. 10-10 temporal contrast for femtosecond ultraintense lasers by cross-polarized wave generation

    Aurélie Jullien, Olivier Albert, Frédéric Burgy, Guy Hamoniaux, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Jean-Paul Chambaret, Frédérika Augé-Rochereau, Gilles Chériaux, Jean Etchepare, Nikolay Minkovski, and Solomon M. Saltiel

    Opt. Letters 30(8) 920-922 (2005)

  13. Tailoring a 67 attosecond pulse through advantageous phase-mismatch

    Kun Zhao, Qi Zhang, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Xiaowei Wang, and Zenghu Chang

    Opt. Letters 37(18) 3891-3893 (2012)

  14. 4.2 PW, 20 fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1 Hz

    Jae Hee Sung, Hwang Woon Lee, Je Yoon Yoo, Jin Woo Yoon, Chang Won Lee, Jeong Moon Yang, Yeon Joo Son, Yong Ha Jang, Seong Ku Lee, and Chang Hee Nam

    Opt. Letters 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017)