The petawatt (PW) laser has experienced a rapid development in the past two decades, and
tens of giant facilities have been constructed worldwide. After realizing 10–100 PW, it seems …

Ultrafast optics has undergone a revolution in the past two decades, driven by new methods
of pulse generation, amplification, manipulation, and measurement. We review the …

The temporal characterization of ultrafast laser pulses has become a cornerstone capability
of ultrafast optics laboratories and is routine both for optimizing laser pulse duration and …

The interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with transparent materials is a topic that
has caused great interest of scientists over the past two decades. It will continue to be a …

The electric field of an ultrashort laser pulse often fails to separate into a product of purely
temporal and purely spatial factors. These so-called spatio-temporal couplings constitute a …

A laser system producing controllable and stable pulses with high power and ultrashort
duration at high repetition rate is a key component of a high energy laser-plasma accelerator …

We present a rigorous, but mathematically relatively simple and elegant, theory of first-order
spatio-temporal distortions, that is, couplings between spatial (or spatial-frequency) and …

A remarkable phenomenon in ultrafast laser processing of transparent materials, in
particular, silica glass, manifested as a change in material modification by reversing the …

Pulse-front tilt in an ultrashort laser pulse is generally considered to be a direct
consequence of, and equivalent to, angular dispersion. We show, however, that, while this is …

The past 30 years have seen spectacular progress in the development of techniques for
measuring the complete temporal field, and even the complete spatiotemporal field, of …