Contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources of high-energy few-cycle light
pulses. Currently two methods are capable of generating such pulses: post compression of …

Ultrafast lasers, which generate optical pulses in the picosecond and femtosecond range,
have progressed over the past decade from complicated and specialized laboratory systems …

Optical soliton dynamics can cause extreme alteration of the temporal and spectral shape of
a propagating light pulse. This occurs at up to kilowatt peak powers in glass-core optical …

Over the past four years, there has been a surge of activity in the supercontinuum field since
the introduction of various types of microstructure fibers. The main reason for this great …

In this paper, a review of fiber laser technology as relevant for applications in ultrafast optics
is given. We discuss core enabling fiber technologies, such as fiber amplifiers, all-fiber …

Intense, well-controlled light pulses with only a few optical cycles start to play a crucial role
in many fields of physics, such as attosecond science. We present an extremely simple and …

We present a high peak and average power optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
system driven by diode-pumped Yb: KGW and Nd: YAG lasers running at 1 kHz repetition …

The advent of self-referenced optical frequency combs, has sparked the development of
novel areas in ultrafast sciences such as attosecond technology, and the synthesis of …

The pulse duration at the output of femtosecond lasers is usually close to the Fourier limit,
and can be shortened by increasing the spectral width. To this end, use is made of self …

We describe the recent emergence of attosecond science, assessing the present state of the
art and discussing several recent examples where attosecond electron dynamics has been …