Chapter 1 Solid-State Materials for Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Amplification

Chapter 2 Few-Cycle Pulses Directly from a Laser

Chapter 3 Few-Cycle Pulses by External Compression

Chapter 4 Parametric Amplification and Phase Control of Few-Cycle Light Pulses

Chapter 5 Measuring Ultrashort Pulsesin the Single-Cycle Regime:Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating

Chapter 6 Characterization of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime Using Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction

Chapter 7 Optical Frequency-Comb Generation and High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy

Chapter 9 Subfemtosecond XUV Pulses: Attosecond Metrology and Spectroscopy

Chapter 10 Resonant Nonperturbative Extreme Nonlinear Optics with Two-Cycle Pulses: Carrier-Wave Rabi Flopping and Role of the Carrier–Envelope Offset Phase

Chapter 11 Dynamics of a Photoexcited Hydrated Electron