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

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

We demonstrate a scheme for nonlinear pulse compression at high average powers based
on self-phase modulation in a multi-pass cell using fused silica as the nonlinear medium …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

We present a high-energy laser source consisting of an ultrafast thin-disk amplifier followed
by a nonlinear compression stage. At a repetition rate of 5 kHz, the drive laser provides a …

The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

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 …

We demonstrate the reliable generation of 1-mJ, 31-fs pulses with an average power of 1 kW
by post-compression of 200-fs pulses from a coherently combined Yb: fiber laser system in …

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 …

We demonstrate nonlinear pulse compression by multi-pass cell spectral broadening
(MPCSB) from 860 fs to 115 fs with compressed pulse energy of 7.5 µJ, average power of …