Yb: CaGdAlO4, or Yb: CALGO, a new laser crystal, has been attracting increasing attention
recently in a myriad of laser technologies. This crystal features salient thermal, spectroscopic …

Novel table-top sources of extreme-ultraviolet light based on high-harmonic generation yield
unique insight into the fundamental properties of molecules, nanomaterials or correlated …

Principal thermo-optic coefficients (TOCs), dn_o/dT and dn_e/dT, are measured for Yb:
CaGdAlO_4 crystal, for the first time, to our knowledge. At the wavelength of~ 1 μm, they …

We investigate the potential of a multi-plate medium consisting of thin fused silica plates to
generate few-cycle pulses from a moderately high energy (400 μJ) and average power (20 …

High-repetition-rate high-harmonic sources are desired for novel attosecond and time-
resolved spectroscopies. One route to generating these sources is the nonlinear …

The pulse energy and average power are two long-sought parameters of femtosecond
lasers. In the fields of nonlinear-optics and strong-field physics, they respectively play the …

Yb: CaYAlO_4 has been investigated spectroscopically and compared to better known Yb:
CaGdAlO_4. It turns out that both materials show very similar spectroscopic parameters …

We report on the first diode-pumped Yb: CaGdAlO_4 regenerative amplifier in the sub-100-
fs regime. It generates pulses at a central wavelength of 1047 nm with up to 24 μJ energy …

We investigated and compared Yb: CaAlGdO_4 and Yb: CaF_2 regenerative amplifiers at
repetition rates 5-10 kHz, a frequency range interesting for industrial applications requiring …

A Yb: YLF crystal has been investigated in a femtosecond oscillator pumped by two 400 mW
single-mode fiber-coupled diodes emitting at 976 nm and mode locked with a …