Syllabus
Introduction. description of ultrashort light pulses. Light pulse propagation.
Linear and nonlinear optics of ultrashort pulses. Pulse shaping.
Measurement of ultrashort light pulse properties.
Ultrafast lasers, principles of femtosecond pulse generation.
Overview of ultrafast processes in semiconductors.
Emission techniques-luminiscent measurements.
Pump and probe techniques.
Transient grating techniques.
Time-resolved Raman scattering
Coherent time-resolved spectroscopy.
Time- and angular-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
Attosecond spectroscopy.
Time-resolved electron microscopy and diffraction.
Annotation
Principles of spectroscopy with high time resolution (mainly femtosecond) is the topic of lecture. Techniques of ultrashosrt light pulse generation and their properties are reviewed.
The overview of a variety of spectroscopic methods, their principles and applications (in semiconductor physics in particular), is a core of the lecture. In addition, the progress of attosecond optics and spectroscopy and time-resolved electron microscopy are discussed.