The petawatt (PW) laser has experienced a rapid development in the past two decades, and
tens of giant facilities have been constructed worldwide. After realizing 10–100 PW, it seems …

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 …

The availability of high-energy pulses with durations shorter than the period of their carrier
frequency (sub-cycle) will reveal new regimes of strong-field light–matter interactions …

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 …

Today's ultrafast lasers operate at the physical limits of optical materials to reach extreme
performances. Amplification of single-cycle laser pulses with their corresponding octave …

The quest for ever‐shorter optical pulses has been ongoing for over half a century. Although
few‐cycle pulses have been generated for nearly 40 years, pulse lengths below the single …

The rapid development of the optical-cycle-level ultra-fast laser technologies may break
through the bottleneck of the traditional ultra-intense laser [ie, Petawatt (PW, 1015 W) laser …

We have temporally characterized, dispersion compensated and carrier-envelope phase
stabilized 1.4-cycle pulses (3.2 fs) with 160 µJ of energy at 722 nm using a minimal and …

The versatile manipulation of electron motion on the atomic scale calls for the sha** of the
electric field evolution of light within a single cycle. The super-octave bandwidth required for …

Waveform nonlinear optics aims to study and control the nonlinear interactions of matter with
extremely short optical waveforms custom-tailored within a single cycle of light. Different …