Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye
lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced …

The impact of femtosecond lasers across science and engineering has been significant. The
one area which has so far proved hard to access for femtosecond lasers has been the …

The viability of fast-ignition (FI) inertial confinement fusion hinges on the efficient transfer of
laser energy to the compressed fuel via multi-MeV electrons. Preformed plasma due to the …

We report on theoretical and experimental investigation of the signal and superfluorescence
amplification in a 7 TW optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) system. We …

We present an experimental demonstration of a renewed set up, with respect to the one
described in [A. Jullien et al, Opt. Lett. 30, 920 (2005)], that enables more reliable and robust …

We demonstrated for the first time the application of a self-diffraction (SD) process in a bulk
Kerr medium to improve the temporal, spectral, and spatial qualities of femtosecond laser …

Cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation is used for the contrast improvement of ultra-
intense femtosecond laser pulses in a double CPA configuration. We present theoretical and …

This paper describes frequency-doubled operation of a high-energy chirped-pulse-
amplification beamline. Efficient type-I second-harmonic generation was achieved using a 3 …

A pulse clean technique in time domain combining noncollinear optical-parametric
amplification and second-harmonic generation is demonstrated. The measurement-limited> …

We propose a highly efficient scheme for temporal filters devoted to femtosecond pulse
contrast enhancement. The filter is based on cross-polarized wave generation with a …