C. Sauteret

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed mirrorless quasi-monochromatic laser sources made of stoichiometric neodymium compounds (Nd0.75:La0.25P4O15 and NdCl3· 6H2O) pumped by nanosecond laser pulses and found that short sub-nanosecond and narrowbandwidth (0.15-nm) pulses are generated in both compounds when they are pumped at high intensities.

TL;DR: Efficient generation of picosecond narrow-bandwidth pulses are demonstrated by frequency mixing of broadband opposite chirped pulses in a type I doubling crystal that allows them to be perfectly synchronized with femtosecond pulses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the temporal aberrations induced by the different kinds of misalignments of the gratings were discussed and the importance of spatially transverse effects was emphasized. And the basic principles of self-compensation and a set-up based on symmetry considerations were presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral gain narrowing was identified as one of the main issues, and a solution was proposed to solve it. But it was only applied to a Ti:sapphire/Nd:silicate glass power chain.

TL;DR: Pulses of 20-TW peak power have been generated using the chirped-pulse-amplification technique with a 90-mm output-aperture Nd:silicate glass amplification line using large holographic gold-coated 1740-lines/mm diffraction gratings.