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 generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

We produce 1.5 cycle (10.5 fs), 1.2 mJ, 3 kHz carrier-envelope-phase-stable pulses at 2.1
μm carrier wavelength, from a three-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier system …

The generation of power-and wavelength-scalable few optical cycle pulses remains one of
the major challenges in modern laser physics. Over the past decade, the development of …

We produce a 3 mJ, two-cycle (11.4 fs), 1 kHz, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable laser
source at 1.7 μm via a three-stage Ti: sapphire-pumped optical parametric chirped-pulse …

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 …

We developed a high power optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) system
at 2.1? µm harnessing a 500? W Yb: YAG thin disk laser as the only pump and signal …

We report on a multi-mJ 2.1 μm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA)
system operating at 1 kHz repetition rate, pumped by a picosecond cryogenic Yb: YAG laser …

We report on the generation of 9.0 fs, 550 μJ, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stabilized
optical pulses around 1.6 μm at 1 kHz. Few-cycle IR pulses are obtained from a BiB_3O_6 …

High-average power laser sources delivering intense few-cycle pulses in wavelength
regions beyond the near infrared are promising tools for driving the next generation of high …