We demonstrate the generation of 0.85 PW, 30 fs laser pulses at a repetition rate of 3.3 Hz
with a record average power of 85 W from a Ti: sapphire laser. The system is pumped by …

The efficient conversion of optical laser light into bright ultrafast x-ray pulses in laser created
plasmas is of high interest for dense plasma physics studies, material science, and other …

Efficient excitation of dense plasma columns at 100-Hz repetition rate using a tailored pump
pulse profile produced a tabletop soft-x-ray laser average power of 0.1 mW at λ= 13.9 nm …

We have demonstrated an all-diode-pumped Yb: YAG chirped pulse amplification laser that
produces 100? mJ pulses of 5? ps duration at 100? Hz repetition rate. The compact laser …

We have demonstrated the efficient generation of sub-9-nm-wavelength picosecond laser
pulses of microjoule energy at 1-Hz repetition rate with a tabletop laser. Gain-saturated …

High-energy ultrashort pulse optical lasers operating at high repetition rate are required to
drive intense compact coherent soft X-ray sources, including soft X-ray lasers, for …

We discuss the results of work directed toward the development of high energy (>; 1 J), high
average power, diode-pumped picosecond lasers. The design and operation of diode …

We demonstrate the first real-space recording of nanoscale dynamic interactions using
single-shot soft x-ray (SXR) full-field laser microscopy. A sequence of real-space flash …

We demonstrate a room-temperature Ti: Sapphire (Ti: Sa) amplifier that uses a cross pump-
seed geometry (cross-thin-slab) to generate 30-mJ output pulses at 0.5-kHz repetition rate …

A major challenge in laser machining of microstructures is that of extending the spatial
domain to the smaller dimensions of interest in nanotechnology. We demonstrate the …