New Developments

Abstract

Emerging applications in many fields of modern ultrafast science require high-power broadband radiation and few optical cycle pulses that are generated by all-solid-state technology and by relatively simple means. This chapter gives an overview of the currently evolving research topics in SC generation that pursue power and energy scaling, and control of SC radiation. A special emphasis is given to various extracavity pulse compression and self-compression techniques which rely on spectral broadening and SC generation in bulk solid-state media, and which currently receive a great deal of revived interest.