Editor's Picks Collection: Ultrafast Science and Technology Pt. 2

To honor OSA's centennial, JOSA B Centennial Editor Prem Kumar 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 Science and Technology Pt 2.

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. Spatial and temporal transformation of femtosecond laser pulses by lenses and lens systems

    M. Kempe, U. Stamm, B. Wilhelmi, and W. Rudolph

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 9(7) 1158-1165 (1992)

  2. Determination of the inertial contribution to the nonlinear refractive index of air, N2, and O2 by use of unfocused high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses

    E. T. J. Nibbering, G. Grillon, M. A. Franco, B. S. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14(3) 650-660 (1997)

  3. High-resolution acousto-optic shaping of unamplified and amplified femtosecond laser pulses

    M. A. Dugan, J. X. Tull, and W. S. Warren

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14(9) 2348-2358 (1997)

  4. Generation, shaping, and characterization of intense femtosecond pulses tunable from 3 to 20 μm

    Robert A. Kaindl, Matthias Wurm, Klaus Reimann, Peter Hamm, Andrew M. Weiner, and Michael Woerner

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17(12) 2086-2094 (2000)

  5. Supercontinuum generation in air-silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping

    John M. Dudley, Laurent Provino, Nicolas Grossard, Hervé Maillotte, Robert S. Windeler, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and Stéphane Coen

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19(4) 765-771 (2002)

  6. Infrared femtosecond light filaments in air: simulations and experiments

    Arnaud Couairon, Stelios Tzortzakis, Luc Bergé, Michel Franco, Bernard Prade, and André Mysyrowicz

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19(5) 1117-1131 (2002)

  7. Femtosecond writing of active optical waveguides with astigmatically shaped beams

    Roberto Osellame, Stefano Taccheo, Marco Marangoni, Roberta Ramponi, Paolo Laporta, Dario Polli, Sandro De Silvestri, and Giulio Cerullo

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(7) 1559-1567 (2003)

  8. Properties of normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber lasers

    Andy Chong, William H. Renninger, and Frank W. Wise

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(2) 140-148 (2008)

  9. Attosecond photon sources: the first decade and beyond [Invited]

    Zenghu Chang and P. Corkum

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11) B9-B17 (2010)

  10. The evolving optical frequency comb [Invited]

    Scott A. Diddams

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11) B51-B62 (2010)