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 …

Today's ultrafast lasers operate at the physical limits of optical materials to reach extreme
performances. Amplification of single-cycle laser pulses with their corresponding octave …

We report on the leap of Yb-InnoSlab laser technology towards high pulse energies of 54mJ
combined with high average power exceeding half a kW. The system features pulse …

Accurately characterizing the field of broadband optical pulses is required for develo**
new optical sources, performing successful experiments, and interpreting experimental …

We report on an optical architecture delivering sub-120 femtosecond laser pulses of 20 µJ
tunable from 5.5 µm to 13 µm in the mid-infrared range (mid-IR). The system is based on a …

We report on a high-power fiber optical frequency comb consisting of a 250-MHz mode-
locked fiber laser and a three-stage cascaded fiber chirped-pulse amplification system. After …

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 …

Over the past decades, optical parametric amplification (OPA) has become one of the most
promising sources of ultrafast Mid-IR laser, owing to its outstanding properties including …

We propose a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) scheme pumped by a
broadband laser pulse. The pump pulse is spectrally broadened in a multi-plate system …

The electric properties of mid-IR filaments in air have been investigated in comparison with
their more traditional near-IR counterparts. Although the number of ions left after the pulse is …