High-energy few-cycle pulses: post-compression techniques

T Nagy, P Simon, L Veisz - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources of high-energy few-cycle light
pulses. Currently two methods are capable of generating such pulses: post compression of …

Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

Frontiers of mid-IR lasers based on transition metal doped chalcogenides

SB Mirov, IS Moskalev, S Vasilyev… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling broad tunability, high peak and average power, ultrashort pulse duration, and all
known modes of laser operation-transition-metal (TM)-doped II-VI chalcogenides are the …

Optical soliton perturbation and conservation law with Kudryashov's refractive index having quadrupled power-law and dual form of generalized nonlocal nonlinearity

Y Yıldırım, A Biswas, AH Kara, P Guggilla, S Khan… - Optik, 2021 - Elsevier
The current paper obtains soliton solutions for Kudryashov's law which stem from
quadrupled-power law and dual form of nonlocal nonlinearity. A full spectrum of soliton …

Advances in mid-infrared spectroscopy enabled by supercontinuum laser sources

I Zorin, P Gattinger, A Ebner, M Brandstetter - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum sources are all-fiber pulsed laser-driven systems that provide high power
spectral densities within ultra-broadband spectral ranges. The tailored process of generating …

Deep and dynamic metabolic and structural imaging in living tissues

K Liu, H Cao, K Shashaty, LY Yu, S Spitz… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Label-free imaging through two-photon autofluorescence of NAD (P) H allows for
nondestructive, high-resolution visualization of cellular activities in living systems. However …

Compact and robust supercontinuum generation and post-compression using multiple thin plates

X **e, Y Deng, SL Johnson - High Power Laser Science and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We report on compact and robust supercontinuum generation and post-compression using
transmission of light through multiple thin solid plates at the SwissFEL X-ray free-electron …

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 …

Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr: ZnS oscillator reaches the spectral span of an optical octave

S Vasilyev, I Moskalev, V Smolski, J Peppers… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first super-octave femtosecond polycrystalline
Cr: ZnS laser at the central wavelength 2.4 µm. The laser is based on a non-polarizing …

Ultrafast mid-infrared high harmonic and supercontinuum generation with n2 characterization in zinc selenide

K Werner, MG Hastings, A Schweinsberg, BL Wilmer… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Polycrystalline ZnSe is an exciting source of broadband supercontinuum and high-harmonic
generation via random quasi phase matching, exhibiting broad transparency in the mid …