Femtosecond Lasers: Latest Advances and Application

Dear Colleagues,

Femtosecond lasers have been widely used for technological developments and scientific research. The unique properties of ultrashort pulse widths and intense peak powers and the highly flexible and integrated structure have enabled progress in various fields of industry and research. The applications of femtosecond lasers cover a wide range of areas including particle manipulation and trapping (such as optical tweezers, quantum manipulation), micro/nano-machining, laser 3D processing, laser microscopy, laser-based medical applications, the development of new wavelength ranges, supercontinuum generation, laser-material interactions, laser interaction in liquids, inscription of integrated waveguide circuits, telecommunications, etc. There has been significant progresses in the field of femtosecond lasers in recent years, such as new techniques for the characterization of ultrashort pulses and ultrafast events, including radially and azimuthally polarized beams, measurements of spatio-temporal coupling, and chromatic dispersion; optical pulse shaping in space and time, including the generation of trains of pulses, vector beams, pulse compression, pulse dividing, pulse stacking, and coherent synthesis; ultrafast laser oscillators and amplifiers, including solid-state, semiconductor, fiber, gas lasers, mode-locked sources, and CPA systems; femtosecond optical parametric amplifiers, etc.

This Special Issue aims at presenting original state-of-the-art research articles on femtosecond lasers and their applications.

Prof. Dr. Haitao Zhang
Guest Editor

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