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 …

The generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

We present a high peak and average power optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
system driven by diode-pumped Yb: KGW and Nd: YAG lasers running at 1 kHz repetition …

Today's ultrafast lasers operate at the physical limits of optical materials to reach extreme
performances. Amplification of single-cycle laser pulses with their corresponding octave …

Access to the complete electric field evolution of a laser pulse is essential for attosecond
science in general, and for the scrutiny and control of electron phenomena in solid-state …

The milestones of attosecond optics research in the last 15 years are briefly reviewed, and
the latest trends in applications in gaseous and condensed matter are introduced. An …

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 …

By employing pulse compression with a stretched hollow-core fiber, we generated 2-cycle
pulses at 1.8 μm (12 fs) carrying 5 mJ of pulse energy at 100 Hz repetition rate. This energy …

We produce a 3 mJ, two-cycle (11.4 fs), 1 kHz, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable laser
source at 1.7 μm via a three-stage Ti: sapphire-pumped optical parametric chirped-pulse …

The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …