Exploring the World with the Laser

Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th birthday

Dieter Meschede, Thomas Udem, Tilman Esslinger

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783319643458
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319643465
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Optics & Light

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is given to ultrafast laser phenomena, implementations of frequency combs, precision spectroscopy and high resolution metrology. Furthermore, applications of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are widely covered. This book is dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The contributions are reprinted from a topical collection published in Applied Physics B, 2016.

Selected contributions are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Please see the copyright page for further details. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Unexpectedly Large Difference of the Electron Density at the Nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 Fine-Structure Doublet of Ca+
• New Avenues for Matter-Wave-Enhanced Spectroscopy
• Yb Fiber Amplifier at 972.5 nm with Frequency Quadrupling to 243.1 nm
• Optical Autler–Townes Spectroscopy in a Heteronuclear Mixture of Laser-Cooled Atoms
• From Quantum Transitions to Electronic Motions
• Measuring and Imaging Nanomechanical Motion with Laser Light
• Quantum Regime of a Free-Electron Laser: Relativistic Approach
• Playing Tricks to Ions
• Coherence in Laser-Driven Electrons at the Surface and in the Volume of Solid Matter
• Atomic “Bomb Testing”: The Elitzur–Vaidman Experiment Violates the Leggett–Garg Inequality
• Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory
• Frequency-Comb Referenced Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Be+ for Nuclear Structure Investigations and Many-Body QED Tests
• High-Accuracy Deep-UV Ramsey-comb Spectroscopy in Krypton
• Phase-Stable, Multi-μJ Femtosecond Pulses from a Repetition-Rate Tunable Ti:Sa-Oscillator-Seeded Yb-Fiber Amplifier
• Quantum Electrodynamics, High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Fundamental Constants
• High-Precision Spectroscopy of the HD+ Molecule at the 1-p.p.b. Level
• Orientational Dependence of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Signals in Laser-Driven Atomic Magnetometers
• All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Laser Architecture for Robust Femtosecond Pulse Generation
• A >2-MJ, 1014-W Laser System for DT Fusion—NIF: A Note in Celebration of the 75th Birthday of Prof. Theodore Haensch
• Topological Spin Models in Rydberg Lattices
• Ultrafast Optomechanical Pulse Picking
• Shifting the Phase of a Coherent Beam with a Ion: Influence of the Scattering Cross Section
• Thirty Years of Hydrogen Spectroscopy in Paris
• A Dense Gas of Laser-Cooled Atoms for Hybrid Atom–Ion Trapping
• A Compact Echelle Spectrograph for Characterization of Astro-Combs
• Mode Locking Based on the Temporal Talbot Effect
• T 3-Interferometer for Atoms
• Double-Electron Ionization Driven by Inhomogeneous Fields
• Parity-Nonconserving Interaction-Induced Light Shifts in the – Transition of the Ultracold Atoms to Probe New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Single-Slit Focusing and Its Representations
• Nonadiabatic Molecular Alignment of Linear Molecules Probed by Strong-Field Ionization Yields of Photoelectrons
• Ultracold Metastable Helium: Ramsey Fringes and Atom Interferometry
• Monolayer Graphene as Dissipative Membrane in an Optical Resonator
• Cavity Ring-Up Spectroscopy for Dissipative and Dispersive Sensing in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator
• Sensitivity and Resolution in Frequency Comb Spectroscopy of Buffer Gas Cooled Polyatomic Molecules
• Laser Phase Spectroscopy in Closed-Loop Multilevel Schemes
• Precision Measurements and Test of Molecular Theory in Highly Excited Vibrational States of H2 (v11)
• Ranging with Frequency-Shifted Feedback Lasers: From μm-Range Accuracy to MHz-Range Measurement Rate
• Absorption Spectroscopy of Xenon and Ethylene–Noble Gas Mixtures at High Pressure: Towards Bose–Einstein Condensation of Vacuum Ultraviolet Photons
• Extraction of Enhanced, Ultrashort Laser Pulses from a Passive 10-MHz Stack-and-Dump Cavity
• External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters
• Bose–Einstein Condensates in an Optical Cavity with Sub-recoil Bandwidth
• Ted’s Stanford Days
• From Laser Cooling to the Superfluid Mott Insulator