High‐power laser sources are widely used in industrial precision processing and act as a
new platform for strong‐field physics research using peak power over petawatt. This review …

Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye
lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced …

Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) are the most versatile laser
sources, combining unique features such as wide spectral coverage, ultrashort pulse …

Ultra-short pulse lasers, generating coherent light pulses with pulse durations in the
picosecond and femtosecond range, are becoming popular in precision laser …

The development of high-power diode lasers enabled new solid-state laser concepts such
as thin-disk, fiber, and Innoslab lasers based on trivalent ytterbium as the laser-active ion …

We report on an Yb: YAG thin-disk multipass laser amplifier delivering sub-8 ps pulses at a
wavelength of 1030 nm with 1420 W of average output power and 4.7 mJ of pulse energy …

Ultrafast lasers continue to be at the forefront of many scientific breakthroughs and
technological achievements and progress in the performance of these systems continue to …

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 demonstrate terahertz (THz) generation using the tilted pulse front method in lithium
niobate, driven at an unprecedented high average power of more than 100 W and at a 13.3 …

Optically pumped passively modelocked semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) provide superior
performance in average output power, a broad range of operation wavelengths, and …