In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions which are ordinarily difficult to achieve by the existing techniques. These pulses are specially attractive in the study of ultrafast (few femtosecond) atomic and molecular dynamics. The first involves Optical Parametric Amplification (OPA) mediated by four-wave-mixing in gas and supports the generation of ultrashort pulses in the Near-InfraRed (NIR) to the Mid-InfraRed (MIR) spectral region. By combining pulses at a centre wavelength of 800 nm and their second harmonic in an argon-filled hollow-core fibre, we demonstrate near-infrared pulses, peaked at 1.4 µm, with 5 µJ energy and 45 fs duration at the fibre output. The four-wave-mixing pr...
We describe the virtues of the pump-probe approach for controlled supercontinuum generation in nonli...
Ultrafast picosecond coherent sources in the near-to-mid-infrared (IR) spectral range are of great i...
The four wave mixing (FWM) process is widely exploited for the generation of tunable ultrashort ligh...
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions ...
High-energy, few-cycle, mid-lR radiation sources featuring high pulse repetition rates are of tremen...
This thesis describes the design and construction of an ultrafast high repetition rate laser source ...
In the last decade, the sources of carrier envelope phase-stable few-cycle, high energy laser pulses...
The physics of strong-field applications requires driver laser pulses that are both energetic and ex...
In this thesis, we have demonstrated various ultrafast optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based o...
This thesis deals with numerical studies of the properties and applications of spatio-temporally cou...
High-repetition-rate femtosecond laser sources are essential laboratory tools for spectroscopy, micr...
We introduce a simple approach for the efficient generation of tunable narrow-bandwidth picosecond p...
We report on a near-infrared non-collinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) based on periodically...
The focus of this thesis is ultrafast, nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared in gas-filled hollow-cor...
We describe the virtues of the pump-probe approach for controlled supercontinuum generation in nonli...
Ultrafast picosecond coherent sources in the near-to-mid-infrared (IR) spectral range are of great i...
The four wave mixing (FWM) process is widely exploited for the generation of tunable ultrashort ligh...
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions ...
High-energy, few-cycle, mid-lR radiation sources featuring high pulse repetition rates are of tremen...
This thesis describes the design and construction of an ultrafast high repetition rate laser source ...
In the last decade, the sources of carrier envelope phase-stable few-cycle, high energy laser pulses...
The physics of strong-field applications requires driver laser pulses that are both energetic and ex...
In this thesis, we have demonstrated various ultrafast optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based o...
This thesis deals with numerical studies of the properties and applications of spatio-temporally cou...
High-repetition-rate femtosecond laser sources are essential laboratory tools for spectroscopy, micr...
We introduce a simple approach for the efficient generation of tunable narrow-bandwidth picosecond p...
We report on a near-infrared non-collinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) based on periodically...
The focus of this thesis is ultrafast, nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared in gas-filled hollow-cor...
We describe the virtues of the pump-probe approach for controlled supercontinuum generation in nonli...
Ultrafast picosecond coherent sources in the near-to-mid-infrared (IR) spectral range are of great i...
The four wave mixing (FWM) process is widely exploited for the generation of tunable ultrashort ligh...