Ultrafast lasers reaching extremely high powers within short fractions of time enable a
plethora of applications. They grant advanced material processing capabilities, are effective …

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 …

Strong light fields have created opportunities to tailor novel functionalities of solids,,,–.
Floquet–Bloch states can form under periodic driving of electrons and enable exotic …

Nonlinear propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in bulk transparent media leads
to a specific propagation regime, termed femtosecond filamentation, which in turn produces …

The sub-cycle interaction of light and matter is one of the key frontiers of inquiry made
accessible by attosecond science. Here, we show that when light excites a pair of charge …

The advancement of contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources to provide
high-energy few-cycle light pulses. Through experiments and simulations, we demonstrate …

High-harmonic generation driven by femtosecond lasers makes it possible to capture the
fastest dynamics in molecules and materials. However, thus far, the shortest isolated …

The fundamental principles and experimental implementations of multipass cells used as a
platform for nonlinear optics are reviewed. Embedding a nonlinear medium in a multipass …

In this work, we present a nonlinear spectral broadening and compression scheme based
on self-phase modulation in bulk media inside a Herriott-type multipass cell. With this …

The pulse duration at the output of femtosecond lasers is usually close to the Fourier limit,
and can be shortened by increasing the spectral width. To this end, use is made of self …