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1. Introduction. The laser for the non-expert. Progression of lasers towards shorter pulses. Where are we now? 2. Why femto. Timescales: second, millisecond, micro, nano, pico, femto, atto, zepto, yocto. Femto and Molecular, solids, liquids, heat transfer, electronic, and nuclear. What if you can go faster: A stopwatch, movies, probing and controlling. Chemistry, Physics, Biology: Fundamental sciences dealing with matter. Applied sciences, medicine. Industry: faster than heat transfer. Beyond the first tear: attosecond, zeptosecond, x-ray gamma rays. 3. What is a light pulse. Time and frequency descriptions and how to correlate (general plus math). The transform limit (does not need to be Gaussian). Bandwidth, why is important and how to get it. Spectral phase. 4. A pulse goes through a transparent medium. Dispersion and phase. Beyond linear dispersion. Challenges (broader bandwidths, irregular spectra, high order dispersion). 5. Light matter interactions (part one). Linear. Pump probe. Nonlinear. 6. Light matter interactions (part two). Self action: SPM and Self focusing. Relativistic optics. 7. About femtosecond pulse generation. Generating coherent bandwidth. Controlling the phase (passive). 8. How to measure femtosecond pulses (part one). Autocorrelation based measurements. Self-referencing concept. 9. Getting the laser pulses under control. Pulse shaping concepts. Approaches (static, adaptive). FemtoPulse master. Appendix on the equations for FPM. 10. How to measure femtosecond pulses (part two). The concept of nonlinear optical interference and MII. MIIPS 2. MIIPS 1. 11. Applications of shaped pulses to biomedical imaging, optical biopsy, brain. Shorter is better (how short?). Selective excitation (electronic). Selective excitation (vibrational). 12. Applications of shaped pulses to standoff detection of explosives. 13. Applications of shaped pulses to material processing, cutting and dicing. 14. Applications of shaped pulses to communications. 15. Applications of shaped pulses in science (fs-LID). 16. A survey of new directions being explored, and potential new applications. New imaging modalities. Improving refractive optical surgeries. Surgery, from vocal cords to retinas. Generation of x- and gamma rays for medicine and defense. 17. Index

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