Table of Contents

Femtosecond Laser Development.- Gigahertz Femtosecond Lasers.- Microstructure Fiber and White-light Generation.- Optical Comb Dynamics and Stabilization.- Femtosecond Noncollinear Parametric Amplification and Carrier-Envelope Phase Control.- Optical Frequency Measurement.- Optical Frequency Measurement Using Frequency Multiplication and Frequency Combs.- Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Clocks and Low Noise Frequency Synthesis.- Generation and Measurement of Intense Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Laser Pulses.- Quantum Control of High-Order Harmonic Generation.- Applications of Ultrafast Lasers.