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 …

Filamentation of ultra-short TW-class lasers recently opened new perspectives in
atmospheric research. Laser filaments are self-sustained light structures of 0.1–1 mm in …

In the past decade, mid-infrared (MIR) few-cycle lasers have attracted remarkable research
efforts for their applications in strong-field physics, MIR spectroscopy, and bio-medical …

The advancement of mid‐infrared (MIR) parametric amplification technique serves as the
main driving force of multiple strong‐field experiments in the frontier of science such as the …

The development of high power mid-IR laser applications requires a study on laser induced
damage threshold (LIDT) in the mid-IR. In this paper we have measured the wavelength …

We investigated the filamentation in air of 7 ps laser pulses of up to 200 mJ energy from a
1.03 μm-wavelength Yb: YAG laser at repetition rates up to f= 1kHz. Interferograms of the …

We report on experimental generation of a 6.8 μ J laser pulse spanning from 1.8 to 4.2 μ m
from cascaded second-order nonlinear processes in a 0.4-mm BiB3O6 (BIBO) crystal. The …

Properties of filaments ignited by multi-millijoule, 90 fs mid-infrared pulses centered at 3.9
μm are examined experimentally by monitoring plasma density, losses, spectral dynamics …

Precise control of the nonlinear optical phenomena is the limiting factor for the spectral
broadening and pulse compression techniques for high-power laser systems. Here we …

Laser-induced filamentation in the mid-infrared gives rise to unique regimes of nonlinear
wave dynamics and reveals in many ways unusual nonlinear-optical properties of materials …