High-Power Ultrafast Laser source development

It is hard to overestimate great scientific and industrial potential of lasers, since they have already found an extremely wide range of applications in all spheres of our life. Many of these applications such as nonlinear frequency conversion,  generation of THz or XUV light, material processing, surgery and others have high requirements on laser output power or energy, constantly creating a demand on expanding the limits of state-of-the-art laser systems.  Our group mainly focuses efforts on developing mode-locked Thin-Disk Laser (TDL) sources due to their great power scalability and robustness in order to create cutting-edge ultrafast lasers, providing short pulses with high energies directly from the oscillator or with no more than one compression stage afterwards. Although our main applications of interest are currently based mostly on 1-um driver sources, we are also developing longer wavelength sources to directly transfer all advantages of TDL technology to SWIR and MIR regions, paving the way towards even more interesting experiments in the fields of spectroscopy, nonlinear optics and others.