High-precision x-ray FEL pulse arrival time measurements at SACLA by a THz streak camera with Xe clusters

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High-precision x-ray FEL pulse arrival time measurements at SACLA by a THz streak camera with Xe clusters

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Laser-based ultrasound inspection system

Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics

On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with layered dielectric materials

All-glass miniature GHz repetition rate femtosecond laser cavity

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

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

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Transfer learning application of self-supervised learning in ARPES

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

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Mode-Specific Coupling of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Cavities with Cylindrical Vector Beams

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

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Self-injection Locked Second-Harmonic Generation in Optically Poled Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

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

The competing effects of wave amplitude and collisions on multi-ion species suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in inertial confinement fusion Hohlraums

In situ monitoring of femtosecond laser-induced modifications in dielectrics

Creating and controlling exceptional points of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians via homodyne Lindbladian invariance

Tailored deformation behavior of 304L stainless steel through control of the crystallographic texture with laser-powder bed fusion