In this article, we review progress in the development of high peak-power ultrafast lasers,
and discuss in detail the design issues which determine the performance of these systems …

The electric field of an ultrashort laser pulse often fails to separate into a product of purely
temporal and purely spatial factors. These so-called spatio-temporal couplings constitute a …

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, Second Edition serves as an introduction to the
phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to …

A comprehensive treatment of ultrafast optics This book fills the need for a thorough and
detailed account of ultrafast optics. Written by one of the most preeminent researchers in the …

Chirped pulses have been parametrically amplified by a factor of∼ 2× 10 4 without
bandwidth limitation in BBO crystal. Pulses were compressed down to 70 fs, and∼ 0.9 GW …

Single picosecond pulses have been amplified to the terawatt level by a table-top-size Nd:
glass amplifier by using the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA). The divergence …

A compressor is designed that presents an opposite sign of the dispersion to that of standard
two grating compressors. This is achieved by placing a telescope between gratings in order …

The properties of optical parametric amplifiers are presented to show that, in addition to their
use in providing tuneable pulses, they can form the critical component in systems generating …

We study and demonstrate the technique of simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing of
femtosecond pulses, with the aim to improve the signal-to-background ratio in multiphoton …

Pulse shaping by linear filtering Picosecond pulse shaping Fourier synthesis of femtosecond
optical waveforms 2.3. 1. Fixed masks fabricated using microlithography 2.3. 2. Spatial light …