Nicolaas Bloembergen

Nicolaas Bloembergen (2008) - From Millisecond to Attosecond Laser Pulses

A historical overview is presented of the experimental development of ever shorter laser pulses from 1960 to the present. Already in the early sixties nanosecond pulses were achieved and the entry into the picosecond domain was reached in the late sixties with a neodymium glass laser