Gerard Mourou

TL;DR: In this article, an intragrating-pair parallel plate is demonstrated as a simple, low-alignment-tolerance device for third-order dispersion control in chirped-pulse amplification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate electron production by avalanche ionization as the dominant mechanism for laser breakdown, and subsequent surface damage in silicon, for laser pulse durations in the range of 80 fs to 9 ns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss radiation physics in fields approaching the Schwinger field, including lepton production, radiation effects from highly accelerated electrons, and radiation back-reaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ultrashort pulsed laser is applied to a surface of a substrate having a first layer and a distinct second layer, and the laser energy penetrates through the second layer to the first layer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method by which a structure of non-biological material is accurately localized and cut with a pulse laser beam by focusing the attention upon the fact that the feature of the material is seen in a rapid and decisive variation of the gradient occurring in a constant pulse width value in the relation between the fluence breaking threshold value Fth and the width T of the laser beam pulse.