The performance of fiber laser systems has drastically increased over recent decades, which
has opened up new industrial and scientific applications for this technology. However …

Spatiotemporal control refers to a class of optical techniques for structuring a laser pulse
with coupled spacetime-dependent properties, including moving focal points, dynamic spot …

Active coherent beam combination using a 7-non-coupled core, polarization maintaining, air-
clad, Yb-doped fiber is demonstrated as a monolithic and compact power-scaling concept …

Coherent combining is a novel approach to scale the performance of laser amplifiers. The
use of ultrashort pulses in a coherent combining setup results in new challenges compared …

Since the advent of femtosecond lasers, performance improvements have constantly
impacted on existing applications and enabled novel applications. However, one …

An Yb: YAG thin-disk multipass laser amplifier system was developed operating in a 10 Hz
burst operation mode with 800 µs burst duration and 100 kHz intra-burst repetition rate …

This thesis explores the design, construction, and applications of the optoelectronic swept-
frequency laser (SFL). The optoelectronic SFL is a feedback loop designed around a swept …

We propose and demonstrate an architecture that achieves passive coherent combination of
two femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplifiers. The setup consists in the use of a well …

Coherent beam combining in tiled-aperture configuration is demonstrated on seven
femtosecond fiber amplifiers using an interferometric phase measurement technique. The …

We propose, analyze and demonstrate the optoelectronic phase-locking of optical waves
whose frequencies are chirped continuously and rapidly with time. The optical waves are …