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Ultrashort laser pulses, i.e., pulses emitted shorter than a picosecond, can tailor material properties by introducing permanent modifications locally in three dimensions. Remarkably, under a certain exposure condition, these modifications are accompanied ...

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Small-scale metal castings, small-scale metal/transparent composite structures and process to produce same

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Laser-based manufacturing of freeform glass micro-optics through topological transformation

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Layered metals as polarized transparent conductors

Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications

Bringing casting to microfabrication: processing and deformation of microcastings

Cavitation induced by pulsed and continuous-wave fiber lasers in confinement

Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Laser-Induced Forward Transfer of Functional Microdevices

Single-frequency violet and blue laser emission from AlGaInN photonic integrated circuit chips

On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with layered dielectric materials

Femtosecond laser-induced modifications and self-organization in complex glass systems

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

In situ monitoring of femtosecond laser-induced modifications in dielectrics

Third-harmonic generation monitoring of femtosecond-laser-induced in-volume functional modifications

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Voltage-tunable optical parametric oscillator with an alternating dispersion dimer integrated on a chip

Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system and self-injection locking laser system