Thin‐disk lasers (TDLs) are best known for their high‐power continuous‐wave industrial
applications. Nonetheless, the thin‐disk geometry is also highly attractive for ultrafast laser …

We provide a perspective review over the recent development of short-pulsed Raman fiber
lasers (RFLs), which can provide laser emissions with flexible wavelengths for a variety of …

Exploring emerging materials with enhanced optical nonlinearities at low power levels with
ultrafast response and small footprints is of great interest for information processing …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

We report a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM)-modelocked thin-disk laser
oscillator delivering a record 350-W average output power with 940-fs, 39-µJ pulses at 8.88 …

Optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers are an important class of solid state lasers.
Despite all their advantages, however, they suffer from heat incorporation into the active …

SESAM modelocked oscillators are interesting for applications in strong-field physics such
as high-harmonic generation and attosecond science at high repetition rates or frequency …

Saturable optical elements lie at the cornerstone of many modern optical systems. Regularly
patterned quasi-planar nanostructures—metasurfaces—are known to facilitate nonlinear …

The progress achieved in the last few decades in the performance of ultrafast laser systems
with high average power has been tremendous, and continues to provide momentum to new …

Thin-disk technology uniquely enables the simultaneous scaling of both average and peak
powers, while maintaining an excellent beam profile. It has been widely adopted in the 1-μm …