The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

In the past decade, mid-infrared (MIR) few-cycle lasers have attracted remarkable research
efforts for their applications in strong-field physics, MIR spectroscopy, and bio-medical …

The generation of power-and wavelength-scalable few optical cycle pulses remains one of
the major challenges in modern laser physics. Over the past decade, the development of …

Low-energy excitations can provide insight into the basic ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics
of condensed matter. High-energy femtosecond pulses in the long-wavelength infrared are …

A table-top midwave-infrared optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) system
generates few-cycle pulses with multi-10 GW peak power at a 1 kHz repetition rate. The all …

The development of mid-infrared, high-energy pulses of extremely short pulse duration is of
great importance to the strong-field physics community, as it enables extension of the high …

We report the demonstration of optical compression of an electron beam and the production
of controllable trains of femtosecond, soft x-ray pulses with the Linac Coherent Light Source …

The development of bright eXtreme UltraViolet (XUV) and soft x-ray sources based on high-
order harmonic generation is boosting advances toward understanding the behavior of …

Ho-doped yttrium lithium fluoride chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is implemented with a
high-gain regenerative amplifier (RA) and a two-stage booster amplifier. We demonstrate …

We present a setup for generating broadband (up to 1050 cm^− 1) and broadly tunable (2.5-
15 µm) mid-infrared pulses using an Yb-doped femtosecond laser as the pump source. Our …