Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

We review recent advances in attosecond science; particular attention is devoted to the
generation, temporal characterization and applications of isolated attosecond pulses. After a …

We demonstrate a compact diode-pumped Yb: KGW femtosecond oscillator-Yb: YAG
Innoslab amplifier master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) with nearly transform-limited …

We report a comprehensive investigation of femtosecond continuum generation in single
crystals of several common laser host materials. The absolute spectral energy density, pulse …

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 …

In recent years, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) has emerged as a
powerful tool for the generation of ultrashort pulses with extreme peak intensity. It has …

We report an optically synchronized picosecond pump laser for optical parametric amplifiers
based on an Yb: YAG thin-disk amplifier. At 3 kHz repetition rate, pulse energies of 25 mJ …

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 …

A new ion radiation-pressure acceleration regime, the “leaky light sail,” is proposed which
uses sub-skin-depth nanometer foils irradiated by circularly polarized laser pulses. In the …

A novel regime is proposed where, by employing linearly polarized laser pulses at
intensities 10 21 W cm-2 (2 orders of magnitude lower than discussed in previous work [T …