Since the publication of this book in 1977 literally thousands of papers have
been written on the subject of ultrashort phenomena and optical pulse
generation. This bibliography chronicles primarily the achievements since
1980.
Much has happened in the last six years. We have witnessed an explosion of
advances that have taken place not only in pulse generation techniques but in
methods of measurement and applications. Optical pulses have been gener￾ated as short as 30 femtoseconds and experiments are proceeding throughout
the world in investigating phenomena on a femtosecond time scale. New
techniques for both passive and active modelocking have been developed.
Commercial laser systems producing optical pulses less than a picosecond are
now available. The range of activities has expanded to new fields, in addition
to chemistry, biology, and engineering. A new optical electronics that
operates on a picosecond time scale has been developed. Streak cameras have
been developed that can be optically synchronized at high repetition rates. The
use of optical multichannel analyzers has opened up a new era in high￾resolution and high-sensitivity spectroscopy.