Nonlinear propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in bulk transparent media leads
to a specific propagation regime, termed femtosecond filamentation, which in turn produces …

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 …

High-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently been extended to solids, enabling all-optical
reconstruction of electron band structure. However, material absorption of above-the …

High-energy phase-stable sub-cycle mid-infrared pulses can provide unique opportunities to
explore phase-sensitive strong-field light–matter interactions in atoms, molecules and solids …

Supercontinuum generation in a solid-state medium was investigated experimentally. A
continuum covering 460 to 950 nm was obtained when 0.8 mJ/30 fs Ti: sapphire laser …

Spectroscopy in the wavelength range from 2 to 11 μm (900 to 5000 cm− 1) implies a
multitude of applications in fundamental physics, chemistry, as well as environmental and …

The generation of intense mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical pulses with customizable shape and
spectra spanning a multiple-octave range of vibrational frequencies is an elusive …

We report a long-wavelength mid-infrared (mid-IR), few-cycle optical parametric chirped-
pulse amplifier (OPCPA) based on LiGaS_2 crystals, pumped by a 1 μm Yb: YAG laser, at a …

A short-pulse, frequency-tunable idler-wave output of a two-stage optical parametric
amplifier is compressed in a gas-filled antiresonance-guiding hollow-core photonic-crystal …

We present a high-power mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier
(OPCPA) generating 14.4 fs pulses centered at 2.5 µm with an average power of 12.6 W and …