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 …

The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

We demonstrate a scheme for nonlinear pulse compression at high average powers based
on self-phase modulation in a multi-pass cell using fused silica as the nonlinear medium …

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 nonlinear pulse compression by multi-pass cell spectral broadening
(MPCSB) from 860 fs to 115 fs with compressed pulse energy of 7.5 µJ, average power of …

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 …

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 …

We present a compact extreme ultraviolet (XUV) source based on high-harmonic generation
(HHG) at 2.4 MHz pulse repetition rate driven from the compressed output of a mode-locked …

We investigate Kerr lens mode locking of Yb: Lu_2O_3 thin-disk laser oscillators operating
in the sub-100-fs regime. Pulses as short as 35 fs were generated at an average output …