Combining high peak and high average power has long been a key challenge of ultrafast
laser technology, crucial for applications such as laser-plasma acceleration and strong-field …

The post-compression technique based on self-phase modulation of high-energy pulses
leads to an increase in achievable peak power and intensity. Typically, the pulses …

With the usage of the postcompression technique, few-cycle joule-class laser pulses are
nowadays available extending the state of the art of 100 TW-class laser working at 10 Hz …

With ultrafast laser systems reaching presently 10 PW peak power or operating at high
repetition rates, research towards ensuring the long-term, trouble-free performance of all …

The thin-film post-compression technique has the ability to reduce the pulse duration in PW-
class lasers, increasing the peak power. Here, the nonlinear response of an increasingly …

Analytical expressions for the spatial spectrum of fluence fluctuations of a laser pulse
propagating in a medium with Kerr nonlinearity have been obtained. It is shown that …

Ultrafast optical probing is a widely used method of underdense plasma diagnostic. In
relativistic plasma, the motion blur limits spatial resolution in the direction of motion. For …

In quest of achieving compact and economic PW-level Ti: Sapphire (Ti: sa) lasers with a sub-
15 fs pulse duration, a modified hybrid amplification scheme, which combines the optical …

The objective of this work was the development of a laser module to improve the temporal
contrast of high-intensity laser systems and its implementation at the high-power laser …

The state-of-the-art ultrashort, few-cycle laser pulses recently have entered the regime of the
100 TW-class power and at 10 Hz repetition rate. We explore the potential of such pulses for …