We introduce the refractiveindex. info database, a comprehensive open-source repository
containing optical constants for a wide array of materials, and describe in detail the …

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 …

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

The chromium ion is among the most widely explored and used laser-active ions.
Depending on the charge state of the laser-active chromium ion in the host, tunable …

Single-cycle optical pulses with controllable carrier-envelope phase (CEP) form the basis to
manipulate the nonlinear polarization of matter on a sub-femtosecond time scale. Moreover …

We report a study of high-order multiphoton absorption, nonlinear refraction, and their
anisotropy in four notable mid-infrared χ (2) crystals: GaP, ZnSe, GaSe, and ZGP using …

The nonlinear refractive indices (n_2) of a selection of bulk (LiB_3O_5, KTiOAsO_4, MgO:
LiNbO_3, LiGaS_2, ZnSe) and liquid (E7, MLC2132) crystals are measured at 1030? nm in …

We propose a simple method to measure nonlinear Kerr refractive index in mid-infrared
frequency range that avoids using sophisticated infrared detectors. Our approach is based …

We present a soliton order preservation mechanism leading to broad tunability with high
energy conversion efficiency (ECE) from a fiber-based soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) …

Four-wave mixing processes are ubiquitous in ultrafast optics and the determination of the
coefficients of the χ (3) tensor is thus essential. We introduce a novel time-resolved ultrafast …