Ti:Sapphire Lasers and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Ti:sapphire laser technology has matured, with many commercial ‘turn-key’ systems available to end-users. This has increased adoption in many application fields, such as multiphoton microscopy for biomedicine, Terahertz generation, and micromachining, as well as cutting-edge quantum optics research. Despite this maturity, new original developments of Ti:sapphire laser technology are still progressing rapidly. New pumping sources, such as (In)GaN laser diodes and LEDs, show promise to replace traditionally expensive frequency-converted Nd:YAG lasers. Advances in chirped pulse amplification have brought Ti:sapphire to the extreme intensities of Petawatt-class systems for nuclear fusion and fundamental physics research.

This Special Issue, entitled “Ti:Sapphire Lasers and Their Applications”, of Applied Sciences aims to gather original research manuscripts within a broad scope covering both laser development and applications, as well as a select choice of review articles.

Dr. Volker Sonnenschein
Dr. Hideki Tomita
Dr. Ryohei Terabayashi
Guest Editors

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