Ultrafast laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which contains the
characteristic fingerprint spectra of many important molecules and transparent windows of …

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 …

Enabling broad tunability, high peak and average power, ultrashort pulse duration, and all
known modes of laser operation-transition-metal (TM)-doped II-VI chalcogenides are the …

Transition metal (TM) doped II-VI chalcogenide laser materials offer a unique blend of
physical, spectroscopic, and technological parameters that make them the gain media of …

We review a novel class of femtosecond Cr 2+-doped ZnSe and ZnS lasers, which operates
in a very important for applications wavelength range between 2 and 3.5 μm and which …

The mid-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum is the so-called molecular fingerprint
region because gases have tell-tale absorption features associated with molecular …

We demonstrate efficient amplification of few-optical-cycle mid-IR pulses in single-pass
continuously pumped laser amplifiers based on polycrystalline Cr^ 2+: ZnS and Cr^ 2+ …

Broadband mid-IR output suitable for producing 1000-nm-wide frequency combs centered at
4.9? μm was achieved in a degenerate subharmonic optical parametric oscillator (OPO) …

An ultrashort-pulse Cr^ 2+: ZnSe laser is a novel broadband source for sensitive high
resolution molecular spectroscopy. A 130-fs pulse allows covering of up to 380 cm^-1 …

Single-cycle optical pulses with controllable carrier-envelope phase (CEP) form the basis to
manipulate the nonlinear polarization of matter on a sub-femtosecond time scale. Moreover …