This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Donna Strickland (currently at the University of Waterloo, Canada) and Gérard Mourou (now at École Polytechnique in France) for chirped-pulse ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, DOI 10.29026/oea.2023.220046 discusses table-top optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers. The invention of Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) ...

Fiber laser based chirped pulse amplification system (FLCPA) generates high energy (up to 20 µJ) ultrashort (0.5 ps) pulses at a repetition rate of 100s of KHz for either 1 or 1.5 µm wavelengths.

On Thursday afternoon at Rackham Graduate School, Gérard Mourou, 2018 Nobel Prize laureate in physics and founder of the University of Michigan Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, discussed his ...

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics didn’t just make discoveries. Their revolutionary work turned powerful lasers into ubiquitous lab tools. The day of the ...

Since the earliest demonstration of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) and optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), femtosecond lasers have been able to deliver ultrahigh peak powers up ...

Optical amplifiers based on chirped pulse amplification (CPA) are used to generate high intensity pulses. In the CPA scheme, a weak temporally stretched seed pulse is amplified to high energy in a ...

Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. “By adding a 2×2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high ...

Researchers demonstrate highly chirped pulses created by a using a spectral filter in a Kerr resonator, enabling them to widen a laser pulse wavefront by separating the beam's colors. The chirped ...

Todd Adams receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. Our world is full of light, and we depend upon it to power life on our planet. So it is appropriate to honor three scientists who ...

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. Strickland became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel ...

In the same way that a camera flash can ‘freeze’ rapidly moving objects, making them appear as if they are standing still in photos, extremely short laser pulses can help light up ultrafast processes, ...