With the invention of chirped pulse amplification for lasers in the mid-1980s, high power
ultrafast lasers entered into the world as a disruptive tool, with potential impact on a broad …

The rapid development of the computational methods based on density functional theory, on
the one hand, and of time-, energy-, and momentum-resolved spectroscopy, on the other …

An experimental and numerical study of the laser-induced damage of the surface of optical
material in the femtosecond regime is presented. The objective of this work is to investigate …

Theoretical models of laser-induced damage mechanisms in optical materials are reviewed:
inclusion-initiated thermal explosion (extrinsic mechanism) and impact ionization (II) and …

Simultaneous time-and-space resolved reflectivity and interferometric measurements over a
temporal span of 300 ps have been performed in fused silica and sapphire samples excited …

This paper summarizes our recent results on crystalline waveguides and waveguide lasers
fabricated by the femtosecond-laser writing technique. Highly efficient waveguide lasers …

Three-segment microtracks were for the first time inscribed in bulk fluorite in the scanning
mode via multishot exposure by tightly-focused 515-nm ultrashort laser pulses of variable …

The periodic nanostructuring of inner part of semiconductors can be successfully
accomplished by the infrared ultrashort pulse laser with a double pulse configuration. Self …

We developed a novel method for fabricating microlenses and microlens arrays by
controlling numerical aperture (NA) through temporally shaped femtosecond laser on fused …

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 …