This paper presents a tutorial on the field of femtosecond pulse sha**, a technology that
enables generation of nearly arbitrary, user defined, ultrafast optical waveforms, with control …

A review of nanoplasmonics is given. This includes fundamentals, nanolocalization of
optical energy and hot spots, ultrafast nanoplasmonics and control of the spatiotemporal …

It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering
it provides a systematic way for driving a dynamical system from a given initial state into a …

Raman scattering provides an intrinsic fingerprint of chemical composition. Spontaneous
Raman spectroscopy has been used for many decades to interrogate biological materials …

The ability to control the instantaneous state of light, from high-energy pulses down to the
single-photon level, is an indispensable requirement in photonics. This has, for example …

An imaging platform based on broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering has been
developed that provides an advantageous combination of speed, sensitivity and spectral …

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

Advances in ultrafast lasers, chirped pulse amplifiers, and frequency comb technology
require fundamentally new pulse-modulation strategies capable of supporting …

Advances in optical spectroscopy and microscopy have had a profound impact throughout
the physical, chemical and biological sciences. One example is coherent Raman …

The quest for ultrahigh detection sensitivity with spectroscopic contrasts other than
fluorescence has led to various novel approaches to optical microscopy of biological …