Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

Ultrafast lasers reaching extremely high powers within short fractions of time enable a
plethora of applications. They grant advanced material processing capabilities, are effective …

The mathematical basis of nonlinear optics is Maxwell's system of equations governing
propagation of electromagnetic waves in a material medium, combined with relations …

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 …

The peak power of present-day lasers is limited by the pulse energy that the diffraction
gratings of an optical compressor can withstand. A promising method to overcome this …

Transverse beam propagation is considered in a layered structure in which Kerr nonlinearity
alternates between self-focusing and self-defocusing, which makes it possible to prevent …

We demonstrate nonlinear temporal compression of a high-energy Yb-doped fiber laser
source in a multipass cell filled with argon. The 160 μJ 275 fs input pulses are compressed …

We report on the parametric generation of 100 fs sub-6-cycle 40 μJ pulses with the center
wavelength at 5.2 μm using a 1 ps 2.1 μm pump laser and a dispersion management …

We report the experimental manifestation in optical physics of wave propagation involving
self-steepening without concomitant self-phase-modulation. The conditions are realized …

High-harmonic generation (HHG) provides short-wavelength light that is useful for precision
spectroscopy and probing ultrafast dynamics. We report efficient, phase-coherent harmonic …