Nonlinear propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in bulk transparent media leads
to a specific propagation regime, termed femtosecond filamentation, which in turn produces …

Recent developments in laser sources operating in the mid-IR (3–8 μ m) have been
motivated by the numerous possibilities for both fundamental and applied research. One …

High-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently been extended to solids, enabling all-optical
reconstruction of electron band structure. However, material absorption of above-the …

Nonlinear propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in bulk transparent media
produces a wealth of physical effects, whose combined action leads to a specific …

We report on an optical architecture delivering sub-120 femtosecond laser pulses of 20 µJ
tunable from 5.5 µm to 13 µm in the mid-infrared range (mid-IR). The system is based on a …

Strongly coupled nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrashort mid-infrared pulses
undergoing self-focusing simultaneously with soliton self-compression in an anomalously …

We demonstrate a robust, all-solid-state approach for the generation of microjoule subcycle
pulses in the midinfrared through a cascade of carefully optimized parametric-amplification …

We demonstrate how the depleted pump of an optical parametric amplifier can be recycled
for impulsive alignment of a molecular gas inside a hollow-core fiber and use such …

We identify and experimentally demonstrate a physical scenario whereby high-peak-power
mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses can be compressed as a part of their free-beam spatiotemporal …

We show that a broadly accepted criterion of laser-induced breakdown in solids, defining the
laser-breakdown threshold in terms of the laser fluence or laser intensity needed to generate …