Third-generation femtosecond technology

H Fattahi, HG Barros, M Gorjan, T Nubbemeyer… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye
lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced …

Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub‐cycle optical waveforms

C Manzoni, OD Mücke, G Cirmi, S Fang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

[PDF][PDF] Table-top optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers: past and present

A Dubietis, A Matijošius - Opto-Electron. Adv., 2023 - researching.cn
The generation of power-and wavelength-scalable few optical cycle pulses remains one of
the major challenges in modern laser physics. Over the past decade, the development of …

Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

Carrier-envelope-phase-stable, 1.2 mJ, 1.5 cycle<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> laser pulses at 2.1 μm

Y Deng, A Schwarz, H Fattahi, M Ueffing, X Gu… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We produce 1.5 cycle (10.5 fs), 1.2 mJ, 3 kHz carrier-envelope-phase-stable pulses at 2.1
μm carrier wavelength,<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> from a three-stage …

High-efficiency optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier in BiB3O6 for generation of 3 mJ, two-cycle, carrier-envelope-phase-stable pulses at 1.7 μm

Y Yin, J Li, X Ren, K Zhao, Y Wu, E Cunningham… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We produce a 3 mJ, two-cycle (11.4 fs), 1 kHz, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable laser
source at 1.7 μm via a three-stage Ti: sapphire-pumped optical parametric chirped-pulse …

27 W 2.1 µm OPCPA system for coherent soft X-ray generation operating at 10 kHz

T Feng, A Heilmann, M Bock, L Ehrentraut, T Witting… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We developed a high power optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) system
at 2.1? µm harnessing a 500? W Yb: YAG thin disk laser as the only pump and signal …

Multi-mJ, kHz, 2.1 μm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier and high-flux soft x-ray high-harmonic generation

KH Hong, CJ Lai, JP Siqueira, P Krogen, J Moses… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on a multi-mJ 2.1 μm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA)
system operating at 1 kHz repetition rate, pumped by a picosecond cryogenic Yb: YAG laser …

2D IR spectroscopy at 100 kHz utilizing a Mid-IR OPCPA laser source

BM Luther, KM Tracy, M Gerrity, S Brown… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present a 100 kHz 2D IR spectrometer. The system utilizes a ytterbium all normal
dispersion fiber oscillator as a common source for the pump and seed beams of a MgO …

Sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable, intense optical pulses at 1.6 μm from a BiB3O6 optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

N Ishii, K Kaneshima, K Kitano, T Kanai, S Watanabe… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report on the generation of 9.0 fs, 550 μJ, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stabilized
optical pulses around 1.6 μm at 1 kHz. Few-cycle IR pulses are obtained from a BiB 3 O 6 …