Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide

CN Danson, C Haefner, J Bromage… - High Power Laser …, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide'a comprehensive overview of
the current status of high-power facilities of was presented. This was largely based on facility …

Coherent combination of ultrafast fiber amplifiers

M Hanna, F Guichard, Y Zaouter… - Journal of Physics B …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent progress in coherent combining of femtosecond pulses amplified in optical
fibers as a way to scale the peak and average power of ultrafast sources. Different methods …

Pulses of 32 mJ and 158 fs at 20-kHz repetition rate from a spatiotemporally combined fiber laser system

H Stark, M Benner, J Buldt, A Klenke, J Limpert - Optics Letters, 2023‏ - opg.optica.org
A high-energy, high-power ultrafast fiber laser system based on spatiotemporal coherent
combination is presented. Bursts of eight subsequent chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) …

Coherent beam combination of ultrafast fiber lasers

A Klenke, M Müller, H Stark, M Kienel… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of fiber laser systems has drastically increased over recent decades, which
has opened up new industrial and scientific applications for this technology. However …

23 mJ high-power fiber CPA system using electro-optically controlled divided-pulse amplification

H Stark, J Buldt, M Müller, A Klenke, A Tünnermann… - Optics Letters, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
The pulse-energy scaling technique electro-optically controlled divided-pulse amplification
is implemented in a high-power ultrafast fiber laser system based on coherent beam …

Arbitrarily structured laser pulses

JR Pierce, JP Palastro, F Li, B Malaca, D Ramsey… - Physical Review …, 2023‏ - APS
Spatiotemporal control refers to a class of optical techniques for structuring a laser pulse
with coupled spacetime-dependent properties, including moving focal points, dynamic spot …

Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

CB Schroeder, F Albert, C Benedetti… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-plasma accelerators are capable of sustaining accelerating fields of 10–100 GeV/m,
100–1000 times that of conventional technology and the highest fields produced by any of …

Broadband spectral combining of three pulse-shaped fiber amplifiers with 42fs compressed pulse duration

S Chen, T Zhou, Q Du, D Wang, A Gilardi, JL Vay… - Optics …, 2023‏ - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate ultra-broadband spectral combining of ultrashort pulses from Yb-doped
fiber amplifiers, with coherently spectrally synthesized pulse sha**, to achieve tens-of-fs …

Generation and pulsating behaviors of loosely bound solitons in a passively mode-locked fiber laser

Z Wang, X Wang, Y Song, J Liu, H Zhang - Physical Review A, 2020‏ - APS
We demonstrate the experimental observation of loosely bound solitons and pulsations in a
passively mode-locked fiber laser. The soliton amount inside one soliton bunch typically …

Divided-pulse nonlinear compression in a multipass cell

H Stark, C Grebing, J Buldt, A Klenke… - Journal of Physics …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The pulse-energy and peak-power limitations of a gas-filled multipass cell (MPC) for
nonlinear pulse compression are surpassed by applying a burst of four temporally separated …