The peak power of present-day lasers is limited by the pulse energy that the diffraction
gratings of an optical compressor can withstand. A promising method to overcome this …

We developed a miniaturized two-photon microscope (MINI2P) for fast, high-resolution,
multiplane calcium imaging of over 1,000 neurons at a time in freely moving mice. With a …

Nowadays, dispersive mirrors are able to cover the wavelength range of 4.5 optical octaves
and can be used from 220 nm up to 4500 nm. Various design approaches to dispersive …

We demonstrate a power-scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator. It
delivers 200 fs pulses at an average power of 17 W and a repetition rate of 40 MHz. At an …

We report the feasibility of precision broadband dispersion control with multilayer mirrors
produced in a single coating run. Inherent fluctuations of the group-delay dispersion (GDD) …

A new model for the determination of group delay (GD) and GD dispersion of dispersive
mirrors is presented. The algorithm based on this model enables one to process …

We have demonstrated an all-diode-pumped Yb: YAG chirped pulse amplification laser that
produces 100? mJ pulses of 5? ps duration at 100? Hz repetition rate. The compact laser …

We perform characterization of thin films and reverse engineering of multilayer coatings on
the basis of multiangle spectral photometric data provided by a new advanced …

We report a novel implementation of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) by dominantly using
dispersive multilayer mirrors for chirp control. Our prototyp dispersive-mirror (DMC) …

A synthesis technique allowing to obtain a set of robust designs is reported. The robust
synthesis is based on simultaneous optimization of spectral characteristics of multiple …