Ultrahigh Off-Resonant Field Effects in Semiconductors

10.1002/lpor.201700049

2017-07-07

The excitation of semiconductors with short, off-resonant, high-power terahertz pulses yields extremely nonlinear, ultrafast, dynamical processes including very-high harmonic generation, the occurence of high-order sidebands, dynamical Bloch oscillations, as ...

High Average Power Near-Infrared Few-Cycle Lasers (Laser Photonics Rev. 11(4)/2017)

10.1002/lpor.201770041

2017-07-07

Few-cycle laser technology has come of age. Due to the recent advances in Yb-based solid state laser technology, femtosecond laser pulses are nowadays available at much higher average power and repetition rate. Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification a...

Self-Referenced Measurement of Light Waves (Laser Photonics Rev. 11(4)/2017)

10.1002/lpor.201770043

2017-07-07

An image of an apparatus for self-referenced waveform measurement. A second harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating spectrogram and interferogram between the second harmonic and self-diffraction signals were simultaneously recorded, and the comp...

Short Terahertz Pulse Generation from a Dispersion Compensated Modelocked Semiconductor Laser (Laser Photonics Rev. 11(4)/2017)

10.1002/lpor.201770042

2017-07-07

In the terahertz (THz) frequency range, a semiconductor-based technology for ultra-short pulse generation has yet to be realized. Here, a novel dispersion compensation scheme is applied to THz Quantum Cascade Lasers, based on an on-chip integration of a Gires...

Issue Information: Laser & Photon. Rev. 11(4)/2017

10.1002/lpor.201770104

2017-07-07

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Contents: Laser & Photon. Rev. 11(4)/2017

10.1002/lpor.201720004

2017-07-07

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High Average Power Near-Infrared Few-Cycle Lasers

10.1002/lpor.201700043

2017-07-07

Ultra-short laser pulses with only a few optical cycles duration have gained increasing importance during the recent decade and are currently employed in many laboratories worldwide. In addition, modern laser technology nowadays can provide few-cycle pulses a...

Novel Light Source Integration Approaches for Silicon Photonics

10.1002/lpor.201700063

2017-07-07

Silicon does not emit light efficiently, therefore the integration of other light-emitting materials is highly demanded for silicon photonic integrated circuits. A number of integration approaches have been extensively explored in the past decade. Here, the m...

Short Terahertz Pulse Generation from a Dispersion Compensated Modelocked Semiconductor Laser

10.1002/lpor.201700013

2017-07-07

Dispersion compensation is vital for the generation of ultrashort and single cycle pulses from modelocked lasers across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is typically based on addition of an extra dispersive element to the laser cavity that introduces a chroma...

Giant Three-Photon Absorption in Monolayer MoS2 and Its Application in Near-Infrared Photodetection

10.1002/lpor.201700021

2017-07-07

For decades, there has been extensive research on exploring fundamental physical mechanisms for strong and fast optical nonlinearities. One of the important nonlinear-optical mechanisms is multiphoton absorption which has a wide range of photonic applications...