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From the Near- to the Mid-Infrared

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The previous chapters of this dissertation have demonstrated the progress in the development of KLM TD oscillators towards waveform control and few-cycle operation. So-far all research was concentrated on the optical octave from about 700–1400 nm.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Parts of Sect. 4.1.1 have been published in Ref. [27]: M. Seidel, X. Xiao, S.A. Hussain, G. Arisholm, A. Hartung, K.T. Zawilski, P.G. Schunemann, F. Habel, M. Trubetskov, V. Pervak, O. Pronin, F. Krausz, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1526“Multi-Watt, multi-octave, mid-infrared femtosecond source,” Science Advances 4, eaaq1526 (2018).

  2. 2.

    Parts of Sect. 4.1.2 have been published in Ref. [27]: M. Seidel, X. Xiao, S.A. Hussain, G. Arisholm, A. Hartung, K.T. Zawilski, P.G. Schunemann, F. Habel, M. Trubetskov, V. Pervak, O. Pronin, F. Krausz, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1526 “Multi-Watt, multi-octave, mid-infrared femtosecond source,” Science Advances 4, eaaq1526 (2018).

  3. 3.

    Parts of Sect. 4.1.3 have been published in Ref. [21]: I. Pupeza, D. Sánchez, J. Zhang, N. Lilienfein, M. Seidel, N. Karpowicz, T. Paasch-Colberg, I. Znakovskaya, M. Pescher, W. Schweinberger, V. Pervak, E. Fill, O. Pronin, Z. Wei, F. Krausz, A. Apolonski, and J. Biegert, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.179“High-power sub-two-cycle mid-infrared pulses at 100 MHz repetition rate.” Nat. Photon. 9, 721 (2015).

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Seidel, M. (2019). From the Near- to the Mid-Infrared. In: A New Generation of High-Power, Waveform Controlled, Few-Cycle Light Sources. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10791-8_4

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