Selected Publications

• Scott Diddams, Briggs Atherton, and Jean-Claude Diels. Differential intracavity phase spectroscopy of a three-level system in samarium. Phys. Rev. A., 58:2252-2263, 1998.
• Steffen Prein, Scott Diddams, and Jean-Claude Diels. Complete characterization of femtosecond pulses using an all-electronic detector. Optics Comm., 123:567-573, 1996.
• J.-C. Diels, R. Bernstein, K. Stahlkopf and Xin Miao Zhao, "Lightning control with lasers", Scientific American. 277, 50-55, (1997).
• A. Umbrasas, J.-C. Diels, G. Valiulis, J. Jacob, and A. Piskarskas, "Generation of femtosecond pulses through second harmonic compression of the output of a Nd:YAG laser," Opt. Lett. 20, 2228-2230, (1995).
• J.-C. Diels, R. Bernstein, K. Stahlkopf and Xin Miao Zhao", "Lightning control with lasers", Scientific American. 277, 50-55, (1997).
• M. Bohn and J.-C. Diels, "Bidirectional Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond ring laser", Optics Comm., 141, 53-58", (1997).
• M. Bohn and J.-C. Diels, "Measuring Intracavity Phase Changes Using Double Pulses in a Linear Cavity", Optics Lett., 22, 642-644, (1997).
• S. Diddams and J.-C. Diels, "Dispersion measurements with white light interferometry," Journal of the Opt. Soc. Am. B., 13, 1120-1129, (1996).
• S. Prein, S. Diddams, and J.-C. Diels, "Complete characterization of femtosecond pulses using an all-electronic detector," Optics Comm. 123, 567 (1996).
• X. M. Zhao, J.-C. Diels, C. Y. Wang, and J. Elizondo, "Femtosecond ultraviolet laser pulse induced electrical discharges in gases," IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics.
• N. Mukherjee, A. Mukherjee, and J.-C. Diels, "Four-photon coherent resonant propagation and transient wave mixing: Application to the mercury atom," Phys. Rev. A A38, 1990-2004 (1988).
• J.-C. Diels, J. J. Fontaine, and W. Rudolph, "Ultrafast diagnostics," Revue Phys. Appl. 22, 1605-1611 (1987).
• J.-C. Diels and S. Besnainou, "Multiphoton coherent excitation of molecules," J. Chem. Phys. 85, 6347-6355 (1986).
• W. Rudolph and J.-C. Diels, "Femtosecond time resolved fluorescence," pages 71--74, in Picosecond Phenomena V, A. E. Siegman, ed., (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986).
• J.-C. Diels, J. J. Fontaine, I. C. McMichael, and F. Simoni, "Control and measurement of ultrashort pulse shapes (in amplitude and phase) with femtosecond accuracy," Applied Optics 24, 1270-1282 (1985).
• S. Besnainou, J.-C. Diels, and J. Stone, "Molecular multiphoton excitation of phase coherent pulse pairs," J. of Chem. Phys. 81, 143-149 (1984).
• W. Dietel, J. J. Fontaine, and J.-C. Diels, "Intracavity pulse compression with glass: a new method of generating pulses shorter than 60 femtoseconds," Optics Lett. 8, 4-6 (1983).
• J.-C. Diels, J. Menders, and H. Sallaba, "Generation of coherent pulses of 60 optical cycles through synchronization of the relaxation oscillations of a mode-locked dye laser," in Picosecond Phenomena II, page 41, R. M. Hochstrasser, W. Kaiser, and C. V. Shank, eds. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1980).
• J.-C. Diels and A. T. Georges, "Coherent two-photon resonant third and fifth harmonic VUV generation in metal vapors," Phys. Rev. A 19, 1589-1591 (1979).
• J-C. Diels, "Efficient selective optical excitation for isotope separation using short laser pulses," Phys. Rev. A 13, 1520-1526 (1976).
• J.-C. Diels and E. L. Hahn, "Pulse propagation stability in absorbing and amplifying media," IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics QE-12, 411-416 (1976).
• J.-C. Diels and E. L. Hahn, "Phase modulation propagation effects in ruby," Phys. Rev. A A-10, 2501-2510 (1974).
• J.-C. Diels and E. L. Hahn, "Off-resonance pulse propagation in a two-level system, distance dependence of the carrier frequency," in Proceedings of the Laser Spectroscopy Conference (Vail, Colorado, 1973).
• J.-C. Diels and E. L. Hahn, "Carrier-frequency distance dependence of a pulse propagating in a two-level system," Phys. Rev. A A-8, 1084-1110 (1973).

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