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

Ultra-fast femtosecond (fs) lasers provide a unique technological opportunity to precisely
and efficiently micromachine materials with minimal thermal damage owing to the reduced …

In this Letter we report on the generation of 830 W compressed average power from a
femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system. In the high-power operation we …

A review of theoretical and experimental studies of thermal effects in solid-state lasers is
presented, with a special focus on diode-pumped ytterbium-doped materials. A large part of …

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 …

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) devices have become a key component
of ultrafast passive mode-locked laser sources. Here we describe in more detail how the key …

Ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators achieve the highest average output powers and pulse
energies of any mode-locked laser oscillator technology. The thin disk concept avoids …

Ultrafast laser oscillators have become ubiquitous in science and technology. For many
years, however, their pulse energy has been limited to the nanojoule regime. Applications …

Here is presented and discussed the history, the spectroscopic, the thermo-mechanical and
the laser properties of the new old laser crystal Yb: CaF 2, of its Sr and Ba isotypes as well …

Surface-emitting semiconductor lasers can make use of external cavities and optical
pumping techniques to achieve a combination of high continuous-wave output power and …