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 …

In the past decade, mid-infrared (MIR) few-cycle lasers have attracted remarkable research
efforts for their applications in strong-field physics, MIR spectroscopy, and bio-medical …

Coherent soft x-ray (SXR) sources enable fundamental studies in the important water
window spectral region. Until now, such sources have been limited to repetition rates of 1 …

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 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 present a setup for generating broadband (up to 1050 cm^− 1) and broadly tunable (2.5-
15 µm) mid-infrared pulses using an Yb-doped femtosecond laser as the pump source. Our …

We report on a microjoule-scale mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier (OPA) based on
the recently developed wide-bandgap orthorhombic crystal, BaGa_4S_7 (BGS) and directly …

The advancement of mid‐infrared (MIR) parametric amplification technique serves as the
main driving force of multiple strong‐field experiments in the frontier of science such as the …

The generation of coherent light pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) spectral region with
attosecond pulse durations constitutes the foundation of the field of attosecond science …

Irradiation of solids with ultrashort pulses using laser sources in the mid-infrared (mid-IR)
spectral region is a yet predominantly unexplored field that opens broad possibilities for …