Recent rapid advances in femtosecond technology have had a great impact on their industrial applications such as: ultrafast optoelectronic devices and optical telecommunication systems, ultrashort-pulse lasers and measurement systems, and the development of novel materials for ultrafast functions. In this book, a wealth of knowledge covering requirements in applications details of recent achievements in important technical areas is presented by world-prominent authors in a concise, systematic form. As a whole, this is the first comprehensive book on the emerging field of femtosecond technology. I Introduction.- I-1 Femtosecond Technology and Its Industrial Impact.- II Optoelectronics Technology Roadmap and Industry.- II-1 Technology Roadmap for the Japanese Opto-Electronics Industry.- II-2 Technology Roadmap for Optical Communication - A North American Perspective.- II-3 Structural Change in Industry and Reorganization of R&D Systems in Network-Oriented Societies.- III Ultrafast Optoelectronics for Telecommunications.- III-1 Femtosecond Semiconductor-Based Optoelectonic Devices for Optical Communications and Signal-Processing Systems.- III-2 Generation, Control and Processing of Ultrafast Optical Signals by Electrooptic Modulation/Deflection.- III-3 Subharmonic Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies.- III-4 All-Optical Access Node Technologies.- III-5 Ultrafast All-Optical Switch Using Low-Temperature-Grown InGaAs/InAlAs Multiple-Quantum Wells.- III-6 High Bandwidth Photodetectors.- III-7 Coherent Tunable THz Oscillation by Nonlinear Optics.- III-8 Multi-Gap Photoconductive Switches Fabricated by a Scanning Probe Microscope.- IV Semiconductor Quantum Structures for Femtosecond Devices.- IV-1 High Speed Quantum Dot Lasers: Phonon Bottleneck Issue in Quantum Dot Lasers.- IV-2 Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells.- IV-3 Femtosecond Studies of Semiconductor Microcavities and VCSELs..- IV-4 Quantum Dots and the Expected Role in Femtosecond Devices.- IV-5 Ultrafast Interband-Resonant Light Modulation by Intersubband-Resonant Light in Quantum Wells.- IV-6 Fabrication Technology of Semiconductor Nanometer Structures Towards Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- V Femtosecond Lasers and Measurement Applications.- V-1 Intense Sub-10-fs Laser Pulses: Pushing the Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics.- V-2 Low-Threshold All-Solid-State Femtosecond Lasers.- V-3 All-Solid-State Cr:LiSAF Femtosecond Lasers.- V-4 Femtosecond Pulse Generation around 1.3µm Employing Semiconductor saturable Absorber Mirrors (SESAM).- V-5 Ultrashort Pulse Application to Dimensional Measurements.- V-6 Femtosecond X-Ray Pulse Generation by Using a Low Emittance Electron Beam and a High Brightness Laser for Measurement Applications.- V-7 Femtosecond Quantum Beam Science and New Pump-and-Probe Analysis.- VI Materials for Femtosecond Applications.- VI-1 Ultrafast Functional Materials for Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- VI-2 Ultrafast Relaxations in One-Dimensional Systems; ?-Conjugated Polymers, J-Aggregates, and Metal-Halogen Chain Complexes.- VI-3 Femtosecond Dynamics of Supramolecular Structures in Condensed Phase.- VI-4 Femtosecond Molecular Photonics Materials.- VI-5 Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochromic Systems.- VI-6. Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Glass Materials Containing Metal Nanoparticles. The new femtosecond technology is the basis for fast transmission of large volumes of information. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals, explains the realisation of this concept and gives guidance to the user in optical data transmission. It appeals to researchers, process engineers and advanced students.
