Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Real‐Time Observation of Double‐Hopf Bifurcation in an Ultrafast All‐PM Fiber Laser

K Krupa, TM Kardaś… - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hopf‐type bifurcation dynamics, a universal phenomenon existing in numerous physical
systems, has recently been observed in mode‐locked erbium‐doped fiber lasers with …

Nonlinear polarization evolution of ultrashort pulses in polarization maintaining fibers

J Szczepanek, TM Kardaś, C Radzewicz… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We examine properties of an ultrashort laser pulse propagating through an artificial
Saturable Absorber based on Nonlinear Polarization Evolution device which has been …

Efficient generation of femtosecond millijoule pulses at 3.1 µm

F Zhou, Y Wu, A Marra, Z Chang - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
3.2-mJ, 92-fs pulses centered at 3.1? µm are generated at a 1-kHz repetition rate through a
tabletop optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) system based on ZnGeP_2 …

Enhanced Anisotropic Second Harmonic Generation in Type-II van der Waals Heterostructures of gC3N4/BiVO4

Y Ren, S Qiu, S Li, A Zhang, H Liu… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Due to the remarkably strong second-harmonic generation (SHG), two-dimensional
materials have excellent potential applications in nonlinear optics (NLOs). However, their …

Femtosecond infrared pump–stimulated Raman probe spectroscopy: the first application of the method to studies of vibrational relaxation pathways in the liquid HDO …

M Pastorczak, M Nejbauer, C Radzewicz - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We have proposed and constructed a setup for a novel method of ultrafast vibrational
spectroscopy: femtosecond infrared pump–stimulated Raman probe spectroscopy. This is …

Compact and flexible harmonic generator and three-color synthesizer for femtosecond coherent control and time-resolved studies

C Burger, WF Frisch, TM Kardaś, M Trubetskov… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Intense, multi-color laser fields permit the control of the ionization of atoms and the steering
of electron dynamics. Here, we present the efficient collinear creation of the second and third …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly tunable femtosecond OPA pumped by 1030 nm Yb: KGW laser with a range of non-linear crystals tested

M Nejbauer, TM Kardaś, M Pastorczak… - Infrared Physics & …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a carrier-envelope phase-stable laser pulse source continuously tunable in the
2–4 µm wavelength range. The source relies on two-stage optical-parametric amplification …

Extremely efficient, high beam quality second harmonic generation using a thin-disk regenerative amplifier

S Xu, Y Gao, X Liu, Z Ou, F Javed, X He, H Lu… - Optics & Laser …, 2025 - Elsevier
We report on a second harmonic generation (SHG) 5.79 ps, 1 MHz green laser system
based on a 145 W homemade Yb: YAG picosecond thin-disk regenerative amplifier. To …

A novel common-path scheme for fourth harmonic generation by ultrashort laser pulses

P Susnjar, A Demidovich, G Kurdi, P Cinquegrana… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new compact common-path scheme for Fourth-Harmonic Generation (FHG) of
femtosecond laser pulses is proposed here. Guidelines for selection of non-linear crystals …