Filamentation of ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere offers unique opportunities for
long-range transmission of high-power laser radiation and standoff detection. With the …

Laser-induced filamentation in the mid-infrared gives rise to unique regimes of nonlinear
wave dynamics and reveals in many ways unusual nonlinear-optical properties of materials …

Subterawatt ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range delivered by a multistage
optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier are used to study laser-induced filamentation and …

Multi-pass cell (MPC) based temporal pulse compressors have emerged in recent years as
a powerful and versatile solution to the intrinsic issue of long pulses from Yb-based high …

Pulses at 744 nm with 90 fs duration, 6 mJ energy, and a weakly divergent wavefront
propagate for more than 100 m and generate a filament followed by an unprecedently long …

Polarization maps of high-order harmonics are shown to enable a full vectorial
characterization of petahertz electron currents generated in a crystalline solid by an …

The laser-synchrotron facility (LSF) of the National Research Centre “Kurchatov
Institute”(NRC KI) is a unique research complex that combines unprecedented possibilities …

We present the fluorescence spectra of single millimeter water droplets and micron-sized
dyed water aerosol (rhodamine 6G) stimulated by a high-intensity femtosecond Ti: sapphire …

Angle-resolved spectral analysis of a multioctave high-energy supercontinuum output of mid-
infrared laser filaments is shown to provide a powerful tool for understanding intricate …

We present measurements of the third-order optical nonlinearity of Kr, Xe, N 2, O 2, and air
at a wavelength near 10 µm by using four-wave mixing of∼ 15-GW/cm 2, 200-ps (full width …