This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

High average power femtosecond lasers have made spectacular progress in the last
decades–moving from laboratory-based systems with maximum average powers of tens of …

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) have been regarded as a
revolutionary technology for ultrafast mode-locked lasers, producing numerous landmark …

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 …

Ultrafast solid-state laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region are of
significant importance in a variety of applications. However, the realization of ultrafast lasers …

We present the detailed growth and characterization of novel GaSb-based semiconductor
saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) operating in the 2–2.4 µm spectral range. These …

Femtosecond lasers with high repetition rates are attractive for spectroscopic applications
with high sampling rates, high power per comb line, and resolvable lines. However, at long …

A GaSb-based SEmiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror (SESAM) enables continuous-
wave picosecond mode-locked operation with excellent stability of a polarization …

Diode-pumped Cr: ZnS oscillators have emerged as precursors for single-cycle infrared
pulse generation with excellent noise performance. Here we demonstrate a Cr: ZnS …

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) have enabled a wide variety of
modelocked laser systems, which makes measuring their nonlinear properties an important …