Gerard Mourou

TL;DR: In this article, a 100PW laser was focused in vacuum to reveal its nonlinearity up to its breakdown in e+e-, with the goal to understand the vacuum texture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the perspectives of the development of the XUV laser sources using high-power laser facilities and focus on the present statuts of the LASERIX facility and especially its role in the development and deployment of XUV LIUVAE sources considering the French "Institut de la Lumiere Extreme" (ILE) and the potential European project Extreme======Light Infrastructure (ELI).

TL;DR: Using of Thin Film Compressor for shortening of PW laser pulses was investigated in experiments as mentioned in this paper, where Cascade quadratic nonlinearity in a single KDP crystal can be applied for control temporal parameters of the laser pulses.

TL;DR: The first time-domain measurements on millimeter-wave monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) have been accomplished using noncontact electro-optic sampling as discussed by the authors, employing a tiny crystal of lithium tantalate, allowing the extraction of voltage waveforms from arbitrary locations in integrated circuits.

TL;DR: In this article, a high energy, chirped pulse laser was used to demonstrate long range, high resolution radar, and upon compression sub-millimeter surface resolution was obtained, avoiding the nonlinear effects in air that were seen when a picosecond pulse propagated to the target.