The study on the nonlinear optical responses arising from plasmonic nanoantennas, known
as nonlinear plasmonics, has been massively investigated in recent years. Among the most …

Backward Raman amplification and compression in plasma enables pulse compression to
intensities not available using material gratings. In order to achieve the highest intensities …

Contemporary high-power laser systems make use of solid-state laser technology to reach
petawatt pulse powers. The breakdown threshold for optical components in these systems …

The output power of any laser system is limited by the power that any of its individual
components can withstand without being destroyed. This increases the size, complexity and …

Short light pulse amplification using the stimulated Brillouin backscattering mechanism is
considered. The novel feature is that the interaction process takes place in the strongly …

We propose a new laser amplifier scheme utilizing stimulated Raman scattering in plasma in
conjunction with a “flying focus”—a chromatic focusing system combined with a chirped …

Extreme optical fluences, much beyond the damage threshold of conventional optics, are of
interest for a range of high-energy-density physics applications. Nonlinear interactions of …

We propose a new method of compressing laser pulses to ultrahigh powers based on
spatially varying dispersion of an inhomogeneous plasma. Here, compression is achieved …

The energy transfer from a long (3.5 ps) pump pulse to a short (400 fs) seed pulse due to
stimulated Brillouin backscattering in the strong-coupling regime is investigated. The two …

We investigate three-wave resonant interactions through both the generalized Darboux
transformation method and numerical simulations. Firstly, we derive a simple multi-dark-dark …