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 …

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 …

As a compact and burgeoning alternative to synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers,
high harmonic generation (HHG) has proven its superiority in static and time-resolved …

A carrier-envelope-phase-stable near-single-cycle mid-infrared laser based on optical
parametric chirped pulse amplification and hollow-core fiber compression is demonstrated …

We report on the generation of a 31 mJ mid-infrared (MIR) pulse with a repetition rate of 10
Hz near 3.3 μm by a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) scheme using …

Expansion of the wavelength range for an ultrafast laser is an important ingredient for
extending its range of applications. Conventionally, optical parametric amplification (OPA) …

We present an approach for both efficient generation and amplification of 4–12 μ m pulses
by tailoring the phase matching of the nonlinear crystal Zinc Germanium Phosphide (ZGP) in …

We report on a wavelength-tunable optical parametric amplifier (OPA) from 2.7 to 3.8 μm
seeded with carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized pulses generated by intra-pulse …

Broadband optical parametric amplification in the IR region has reached a new milestone
through the use of a non-collinear Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification …

We report on experimental generation of a 6.8 μ J laser pulse spanning from 1.8 to 4.2 μ m
from cascaded second-order nonlinear processes in a 0.4-mm BiB3O6 (BIBO) crystal. The …