The petawatt (PW) laser has experienced a rapid development in the past two decades, and
tens of giant facilities have been constructed worldwide. After realizing 10–100 PW, it seems …

Ultra‐short laser pulses with only a few optical cycles duration have gained increasing
importance during the recent decade and are currently employed in many laboratories …

We present a two-stage noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system
that generates 7.9 fs pulses containing 130 mJ of energy at an 805 nm central wavelength …

We present a high-energy laser source consisting of an ultrafast thin-disk amplifier followed
by a nonlinear compression stage. At a repetition rate of 5 kHz, the drive laser provides a …

A high-contrast high-intensity petawatt-class Ti: sapphire chirped-pulse amplification laser
has been developed for research on high field science. A saturable absorber and a low-gain …

We demonstrate pulse compressibility from 840 fs to 38 fs of 10 mJ pulses from a thin-disk
amplifier at a repetition rate of 3 kHz after nonlinear broadening in a multipass cell. In …

The viability of fast-ignition (FI) inertial confinement fusion hinges on the efficient transfer of
laser energy to the compressed fuel via multi-MeV electrons. Preformed plasma due to the …

Optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) operation with low gain by seeding
with high-energy, clean pulses is shown to significantly improve the contrast to better than …

An ultrafast high-power infrared pulse source employing a dual-chirped optical parametric
amplification (DC-OPA) scheme based on a Ti: sapphire pump laser system is theoretically …

We demonstrate the amplification of broadband pulses from a Ti: Sapphire oscillator by non-
collinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification technique in a type-I BBO crystal to …