The generation and stable propagation of ultrashort optical pulses tend to be limited by
accumulation of excessive nonlinear phase shifts. The limitations are particularly …

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 …

The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous
development in the past decade or so, transforming itself from a research curiosity to a major …

This paper presents recent results in the development of novel ultrafast technologies based
on the generation and application of extremely chirped optical pulses. Linearly frequency …

We review the main challenges and give design guidelines for high-peak-power high-
average-power fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) systems. It is clearly pointed …

Ho-doped yttrium lithium fluoride chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is implemented with a
high-gain regenerative amplifier (RA) and a two-stage booster amplifier. We demonstrate …

Spectral compression by self-phase modulation of amplitude-and phase-shaped pulses is
demonstrated as superior compared to pulses that have only been phase shaped. We …

A detrimental pulse distortion mechanism inherent to nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification
systems is revealed and analyzed. When seeding the nonlinear amplification stage with …

Parabolic pulses with linear self-phase-modulation-induced frequency chirp are attractive in
ultrafast laser fiber amplification system for the functionality of nonlinearities suppression. In …

In this contribution it is reported that circularly polarized light is advantageous if the Kerr-
effect has to be minimized during laser-amplification. The experimental demonstration is …