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1277 Acknowledgements Acknowl. A.1 The Properties of Light by Helen Wächter, Markus W. Sigrist by Richard Haglund The authors thank a number of coworkers for their The author thanks Prof. Emil Wolf for helpful discus- valuable input, notably R. Bartlome, Dr. C. Fischer, sions, and gratefully acknowledges the financial support D. Marinov, Dr. J. Rey, M. Stahel, and Dr. D. Vogler. of a Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von The financial support by the Swiss National Science Humboldt Foundation and of the Medical Free-Electron Foundation and ETH Zurich for the isotopomer studies Laser program of the Department of Defense (Con- is gratefully acknowledged. tract F49620-01-1-0429) during the preparation of this chapter. by Jürgen Helmcke In writing the chapter on frequency-stabilized lasers, A.4 Nonlinear Optics the author has greatly benefited from fruitful coopera- by Aleksei Zheltikov, Anne L’Huillier, Ferenc Krausz tion and helpful discussions with his colleagues at PTB, We acknowledge the support of the European Com- in particular with Drs. Fritz Riehle, Harald Schnatz, munity’s Human Potential Programme under contract Uwe Sterr, and Harald Telle. Special thanks belong to HPRN-CT-2000-00133 (ATTO) and the Swedish Sci- Dr. Fritz Riehle for his careful and critical reading of the ence Council. manuscript. Part of the work discussed in this chapter was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft A.5 Optical Materials and Their Properties (DFG) under SFB 407. by Klaus Bonrad The author of Sect. 5.9.2 is grateful to Dr. Thomas C.12 Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Däubler, Dr. Dirk Hertel, and Dr. Frank Vogesfor fruitful Linear Properties, Manipulation, and stimulating discussions. Generation and Measurement by Matthias Wollenhaupt, Andreas Assion, C.11 Lasers and Coherent Light Sources Thomas Baumert by Gerd Marowsky, Uwe Brinkmann Finally the authors would like to acknowledge Marc As well as the acknowledgements mentioned in the foot- Winter for help in preparing various figures and like notes within the text, we would like to acknowledge to thank Andrea Klumpp as well as Marc Winter for very helpful discussions with A. Borisov, A. Görtler, carefully proofreading the manuscript. J. Ihlemann, R. Pätzel and C. Peth. The patient assis- tance of T. Eggers and J. Jethwa is greatly appreciated D.13 Optical and Spectroscopic Techniques as their support has been central to the edited version by Sune Svanberg of the text. The part Beam Characterization of Excimer The author gratefully acknowledges a most stimulat- Lasers is based upon a contribution from K. Mann and ing collaboration with a large number of colleagues and coworkers, Laserlaboratorium Göttingen. The part UV graduate students in the field of laser-based remote sens- Femtosecond Material Processing is based on a contri- ing. This work was supported by the Swedish Space bution from P. Simon and coworkers, Laserlaboratorium Board, the Swedish Natural Sciences Research Coun- Göttingen. The part High-Intensity UV Femtosecond cil, the FORMAS Research Council, the Knut and Alice Studies is based on a contribution from C. K. Rhodes Wallenberg Foundation and the European Community and coworkers from the University of Chicago, Illinois. within the EUREKA-LASFLEUR (EU380), and the The part 13.5nmTechnology is based on a contribution Access to Large Scale Facility/Research Infrastructure from U. Stamm and coworkers, XTREME technologies, programmes. Göttingen and Jena, Germany. D.16 Optics far Beyond the Diffraction Limit: by Dennis Lo† Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy This work was supported in part by RGC Earmarked by Stefan W. Hell Research Grant of the Hong Kong SAR Government The results summarized in this chapter have been accom- CUHK 4366/99E, and CUHK 4233/03E. plished by collaborative research within the department. 1278 Acknowledgements Acknowl. We thank M. Bossi and R. Medda for preparation of samples, and A. Schönle, C. Eggeling and V. Westphal for valuable discussions. D.20 Holography and Optical Storage by Mirco Imlau, Martin Fally The authors acknowledge financial support by the Austrian Science Fund (P-15642) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Mirco Imlau is indebted for a visiting professorship with the University of Vienna that considerably facilitated this work. We thank Romano Rupp for valuable comments and remarks. 1279 About the Authors Andreas Assion Chapter C.12 Authors Femtolasers Produktions GmbH Andreas Assion joined Femtolasers in January of 2005. Prior to joining Femtolasers, Vienna, Austria he worked with ultrafast lasers on the observation and control of quantum optical [email protected] phenomena in atoms and molecules. He earned his diploma and doctorate studying molecular dynamical effects, including coherent control of complex molecules. After a post-doctoral position with the German Space Agency, he completed his Habilitation 2004. Thomas E. Bauer Chapter A.5,Sect.5.7 JENOPTIK Polymer Systems GmbH Thomas Bauer is a physicist working at Jenoptik Polymer Systems GmbH (former Coating Department WAHL optoparts) as head of coating department. His main areas of interest are plastic Triptis, Germany optics in general and coating of plastic optics in particular. [email protected] Thomas Baumert Chapter C.12 Universität Kassel Professor Baumert received is Ph.D. with Prof. Gerber, University of Institut für Physik Freiburg, Germany in 1992. Further positions in his carreer were: Kassel, Germany 1992–1993, post doc with Prof. Zewail, Caltech, Pasadena; 1993–1997, [email protected] “Habilitation”, University of Würzburg, Germany; 1998–1999, head of LIDAR group, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 1999 Full Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Kassel, Germany. His research area: Femtosecond spectroscopy and ultrafast laser control of matter. Awards: Gödecke thesis award (1992), Heisenberg-Scholarship of DFG (1997–1998), Philip-Morris-Award (2000). Dietrich Bertram Chapter C.10 Philips Lighting Prior to joining the CTO office at Philips Lighting as technical officer Aachen, Germany solid-state lighting, Dietrich Bertram headed a project on LED light [email protected] sources at Philips Research. His background education is physics, where he obtained a masters degree at Marburg University in epitaxy of III-V materials and a Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute of Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. Klaus Bonrad Chapter A.5,Sects.5.9.2, 5.10 Schott Spezialglas AG Klaus Bonrad studied chemistry in Darmstadt and received his Ph.D. in Mainz at Division Luminescence Technology the Max-Planck-Institute of Polymer Research for synthesis and characterisation of Mainz, Germany electrooptical macrocycles. After a post-doc position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute [email protected] and State University in Blacksburg/USA he worked for IBM and SCHOTT Spezialglas AG in the field of organic light emitting diodes developing large area displays in Mainz. Matthias Born Chapter C.10 Philips Research Laboratories Aachen Matthias Born is a physicist and joined Philips Research Aachen, Germany, in 1992. Aachen, Germany He is leading several projects about plasma physics and diagnostics of gas discharges [email protected] with a major topic on mercury-free lamps for general and automotive lighting appli- cations. He is also working as a professor for physics at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. 1280 About the Authors Annette Borsutzky Chapter C.11,Sect.11.9 Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Annette Borsutzky studied physics in Bielefeld and Hannover, Fachbereich Physik Germany, where she received in 1992 her Dr. rer. nat. working on Kaiserslautern, Germany nonlinear frequency mixing in crystals and gases. Joining the university [email protected] of Kaiserslautern studies of optical parametric oscillators, diode- pumped solid state lasers as well as the characterization of new Authors nonlinear and laser active materials are at the center of her work. Hans Brand Chapter C.11,Sect.11.4 Friedrich-Alexander-University of Hans Brand received the degrees Dipl.-Ing. in 1956, Dr.-Ing in 1962 and Erlangen-Nürnberg LHFT Dr.-Ing. habil. in 1962 at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. In 1969 he Department of Electrical, Electronic became professor at the Chair for Microwave Engineering at the FAU and Communication Engineering Erlangen, Germany. His main fields of research are microwaves, Erlangen, Germany [email protected] millimeter wave and terahertz components and systems as well as gas laser and infrared laser technology. In 1996 he became Fellow of the IEEE. He is emeritus since 1998. Robert P. Breault Chapter B.7 Breault Research Organization, Inc. Robert P. Breault is the Chairman and founder of the Breault Research Organization. Tucson, AZ, USA He works on stray light analysis and suppression. He is the author of the APART stray [email protected] light analysis program, used to analyze the Hubble telescope and many others. He received the B.S. in mathematics from Yale University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of SPIE and founder and Co-chairman of the Arizona Optics Industry Association. Matthias Brinkmann Chapter A.5,Sects.5.1, 5.1.9, 5.10 University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt Dr. Brinkmann is a professor of optical engineering at the University of Applied Mathematics and Natural Sciences Sciences Darmstadt, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Darmstadt, Germany Ruhr-Universität Bochum,Germany in 1997