Terahertz-driven linear electron acceleration

EA Nanni, WR Huang, KH Hong, K Ravi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The cost, size and availability of electron accelerators are dominated by the achievable
accelerating gradient. Conventional high-brightness radio-frequency accelerating structures …

Cr: Colquiriite Lasers: Current status and challenges for further progress

U Demirbas - Progress in quantum electronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cr: Colquiriite laser materials (Cr: LiCAF, Cr: LiSAF, Cr: LiSGaF) own broad
absorption bands in the visible region that allow direct-diode pum** by well-developed …

Thermo-optical studies of laser ceramics

OV Palashov, AV Starobor, EA Perevezentsev… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
A cycle of works on manufacturing and studying laser and magnetooptical ceramics with a
focus on their thermo-optical characteristics performed by the research team is analyzed …

53 W average power CEP-stabilized OPCPA system delivering 5.5 TW few cycle pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate

R Budriūnas, T Stanislauskas, J Adamonis… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present a high peak and average power optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
system driven by diode-pumped Yb: KGW and Nd: YAG lasers running at 1 kHz repetition …

AXSIS: Exploring the frontiers in attosecond X-ray science, imaging and spectroscopy

FX Kaertner, F Ahr, AL Calendron, H Çankaya… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
X-ray crystallography is one of the main methods to determine atomic-resolution 3D images
of the whole spectrum of molecules ranging from small inorganic clusters to large protein …

SYLOS lasers–the frontier of few-cycle, multi-TW, kHz lasers for ultrafast applications at extreme light infrastructure attosecond light pulse source

S Tóth, T Stanislauskas, I Balciunas… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The extreme light infrastructure attosecond light pulse source offers beamtime for users of
various attosecond and particle sources driven by versatile laser systems. Here we report on …

1 J, 0.5 kHz repetition rate picosecond laser

C Baumgarten, M Pedicone, H Bravo, H Wang, L Yin… - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report the demonstration of a diode-pumped chirped pulse amplification Yb: YAG laser
that produces λ= 1.03 μm pulses of up to 1.5 J energy compressible to sub-5 ps duration at a …

Pulse sequences for efficient multi-cycle terahertz generation in periodically poled lithium niobate

K Ravi, DN Schimpf, FX Kärtner - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The use of laser pulse sequences to drive the cascaded difference frequency generation of
high energy, high peak-power and multi-cycle terahertz pulses in cryogenically cooled (100 …

High-power, 1-ps, all-Yb: YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier

H Fattahi, A Alismail, H Wang, J Brons, O Pronin… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report a 100 W, 20 mJ, 1-ps, all-Yb: YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier seeded by a
microjoule-level Yb: YAG thin-disk Kerr-lens mode-locked oscillator. The regenerative …

One-joule 500-Hz cryogenic Yb: YAG laser driver of composite thin-disk design

LE Zapata, M Pergament, M Schust, S Reuter… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present results on the development of a cryogenic Yb: YAG multi-pass laser amplifier
based on a composite thin-disk design and demonstrate one-joule, diffraction limited …