Abstract

There has been considerable interest recently in femtosecond pulse shaping techniques in which a single ultrashort pulse is converted into a tailored optical wave form. In this presentation, we present recent results of our continued efforts in femtosecond pulse shaping and its application to multiple-pulse spectroscopy and optical control over material responses. Early demonstrations of multiple-pulse femtosecond spectroscopy on molecular and ionic crystals, in which selected vibrational responses were preferentially amplified, motivated much of this work in pulse-shaping technology and its broader applications.

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