Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub‐cycle optical waveforms

C Manzoni, OD Mücke, G Cirmi, S Fang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Carrier-envelope phase-dependent high harmonic generation in the water window using few-cycle infrared pulses

N Ishii, K Kaneshima, K Kitano, T Kanai… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
High harmonic generation (HHG) using waveform-controlled, few-cycle pulses from Ti:
sapphire lasers has opened emerging researches in strong-field and attosecond physics …

Route to intense single attosecond pulses

GD Tsakiris, K Eidmann, J Meyer-ter-Vehn… - New Journal of …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
A feasibility study is presented for the generation of single attosecond pulses using
harmonics produced by planar targets irradiated at high intensities. The investigation …

Generation of sub-three-cycle, 16 TW light pulses by using noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

D Herrmann, L Veisz, R Tautz, F Tavella, K Schmid… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present a two-stage noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system
that generates 7.9 fs pulses containing 130 mJ of energy at an 805 nm central wavelength …

[PDF][PDF] Table-top optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers: past and present

A Dubietis, A Matijošius - Opto-Electron. Adv., 2023 - researching.cn
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 …

Trends in chirped pulse optical parametric amplification

A Dubietis, R Butkus… - IEEE Journal of selected …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the proof-of-principle demonstration of optical parametric amplifier to efficiently amplify
chirped pulses in 1992, optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) became a …

Ultrafast optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

S Witte, KSE Eikema - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) has emerged as a
powerful tool for the generation of ultrashort pulses with extreme peak intensity. It has …

High-repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb: YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification

T Metzger, A Schwarz, CY Teisset, D Sutter, A Killi… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report an optically synchronized picosecond pump laser for optical parametric amplifiers
based on an Yb: YAG thin-disk amplifier. At 3 kHz repetition rate, pulse energies of 25 mJ …

Parametric amplification of few-cycle carrier-envelope phase-stable pulses at 2.1 μm

T Fuji, N Ishii, CY Teisset, X Gu, T Metzger, A Baltuska… - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier producing infrared 20 fs (3-
optical-cycle) pulses with a stable carrier-envelope phase. The amplifier is seeded with self …