Abstract Mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) ultrafast lasers are widely employed in biomedicine,
molecular spectroscopy, material processing, and nonlinear optics. With the improvement of …

As a compact and burgeoning alternative to synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers,
high harmonic generation (HHG) has proven its superiority in static and time-resolved …

The realization of compact and efficient broadband mid-infrared (MIR) lasers has enormous
impacts in promoting MIR spectroscopy for various important applications. A number of well …

The development of high-power, broadband sources of coherent mid-infrared radiation is
currently the subject of intense research that is driven by a substantial number of existing …

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 …

The generation of power-and wavelength-scalable few optical cycle pulses remains one of
the major challenges in modern laser physics. Over the past decade, the development of …

Transition-metal-doped II-VI semiconductors possess a unique blend of physical,
spectroscopic, optical, and technological parameters. These materials enable high power …

We report on entering a new era of mid-IR femtosecond lasers based on amplification in a
relatively new gain chalcogenide medium, Fe: ZnSe. Our hybrid all-solid-state laser system …

A mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) system
generating few-cycle pulses with multi-gigawatt peak power at a 1 kHz repetition rate is …

An ultra-low pump intensity and high photon flux have been long pursuits of high harmonic
generation (HHG) in solids. However, there is lack of a criterion to identify a pristine solid …