The Supercontinuum Laser Source

Dr. Robert R. Alfano's accomplishments in the field include: Seminal patent on the supercontinuum. Discovery of the supercontinuum. Fellow of APS, OSA, IEEE, AP Sloan Fellow, published three (3) Physical Review Letters in one volume in 1970 on the supercontinuum. 700 published works, 80 patents, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering. Photonic and ultrafast phenomena expert Inventor of Cr4+ tunable lasers

Theory of Self-Phase Modulation and Spectral Broadening.- Supercontinuum Generation in Condensed Matter.- Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Dispersive Fibers.- Cross-Phase Modulation: A New Technique for Controlling the Spectral, Temporal, and Spatial Properties of Ultrashort Pulses.- Simple Models of Self-Phase and Induced-Phase Modulation.- Self-Steepening of Optical Pulses.- Self-Focusing and Continuum Generation in Gases.- Utilization of UV and IR Supercontinua in Gas-Phase Subpicosecond Kinetic Spectroscopy.- Applications of Supercontinuum: Present and Future.- Pulse Compression in Single-Mode Fibers: Picoseconds to Femtoseconds.- Coherence Properties of the Supercontinuum Source.- Supercontinuum Generation in Materials (Solids, Liquids, Gases, Air).- Supercontinuum Generation in Microstructure Fibers.- Supercontinuum in Wavelength Division Multiplex Telecommunication.- Femtosecond Pump: Supercontinuum Probe for Applications in Semiconductors, Biology, and Chemistry.- Supercontinuum in Optical Coherence Tomography.- Supercontinuum in Femtosecond Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization.- Supercontinuum in Ultrafast Pulse Compression.- Supercontinuum in Time and Frequency Metrology.- Supercontinuum in Atmospheric Science.- Coherence of the Supercontinuum.