Overview
- Presents an overview of the state of the art in ultrafast laser phenomena, laser spectroscopy and quantum optics
- Illustrates advances in laser physics and quantum technology
- Dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch by his collaborators
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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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Tilman Esslinger
Head of the Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Research area: Quantum gases, quantum simulation, quantum optics
Major scientific accomplishments: first experimental realization of a Fermi-Hubbard model and the Mott insulator using a fermionic quantum gas trapped in an optical lattice, measurement of the critical exponent of the correlation length in a Bose gas, first realization of a one-dimensional atomic quantum gas, cavity QED and cavity opto-mechanics with Bose- Einstein condensates, observation of the Dicke quantum phase transition, optical lattices with Dirac points, realization of the topological Haldane model, observation of quantized conductance in a Fermi gas.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede
Head of Quantum Technology group at University Bonn, Germany
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics,
Research interests: Quantum technologies with single neutral atoms, few-atom quantum systems, discrete-time quantum walks, cavity QED, digital quantum simulators
Prof. Dr. Thomas Udem
Permanent research associate at the Laser spectroscopy division / Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics / Garching and Institute of Physics Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Research interests: Ultraprecise laser spectroscopy, Frequency combs in the extreme ultraviolet, High harmonic generation, Atomic physics with ion traps, Precision spectroscopy of single atoms, hydrogen and hoydrogen-like systems, Test of fundamental laws, Search for slowly varying constants, Frequency combs infrared and extreme ultraviolet, Ion traps, Intra-cavity high harmonic generation
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring the World with the Laser
Book Subtitle: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th birthday
Editors: Dieter Meschede, Thomas Udem, Tilman Esslinger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64345-8Published: 12 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87774-7Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64346-5Published: 02 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 812
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 262 illustrations in colour
Topics: Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry