The continuous development and improvement of laser sources has steadily increased the number of applications and pushed the limit of high precision measurements in various fields. The goal of the work presented in this thesis is to improve the spectrally broadened Ti:sapphire laser system used for isolated extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulse generation, which has, in the last decade, allowed the study of electron dynamics on a sub-femtosecond (1 fs = 10^-15 s) level and delivered new insights into ultrafast dynamics of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids. By adding a second stage amplifier to the commonly used one-stage chirped pulse amplification laser system the compressed output power of a sub-5 fs laser system has been triple...