Covering high-energy ultrafast amplifiers and solid-state, fiber, and diode lasers, this reference examines recent developments in high-speed laser technology-presenting a first-time comprehensive survey of ultrafast laser technology, its applications, and future trends in various scientific and industrial areas. Ultrafast Lasers discusses micromachining applications for metals, dielectrics, and biological tissue advanced electronics and semiconductor processing optical coherence tomography multiphoton microscopy and considers optical sampling and scanning THz generation and imaging optical communication systems absolute phase control of optical signals structural changes induced in transparent materials with ultrashort laser pulses Supplemented with nearly 1000 references, Ultrafast Lasers is essential reading for optical, electrical, computer, and communication engineers; ophthalmologists; physicists; chemists; doctors and medical researchers involved in laser medicine; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.