**Meet the editor**

Masoud received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering in Iran where he also worked for a few years before moving to the USA in 2010. After moving, Masoud began his PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Laser Materials Processing in 2011 at the Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing at SMU in Dallas, Texas.

Following graduation in May 2014, he joined a tier 1 OEM owned by Honda of America to serve as a Laser Welding Engineer. He also worked as parttime faculty lecturer for Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) where he developed and taught a Modern Manufacturing Processes course. Masoud then began his career with TRUMPF at the Smart Factory in Chicago in May 2017 as a Senior Advanced Technology Engineer. Currently, he is the Product Manager of the Laser Welding Group.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Spectral Ranges 1**

**Generation 29**

**Laser Systems 43** Razvan Dabu

**Laser Systems 63** Vladimir Chvykov

**Fiber Lasers 111**

**Diagnostics 137**

Oleg Pronin and Jonathan Brons

Minamide

Chapter 1 **High-Power Laser Systems of UV and Visible**

Nikolay Ivanov, Valery Losev, Yury Panchenko and Viktor Tarasenko

Shin'ichiro Hayashi, Kouji Nawata, Kodo Kawase and Hiroaki

Chapter 2 **High-Brightness and Continuously Tunable Terahertz-Wave**

Chapter 3 **High-Power, High-Intensity Contrast Hybrid Femtosecond**

Chapter 4 **New Generation of Ultra-High Peak and Average Power**

Chapter 5 **Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked High-Power Thin-Disk Oscillators 91**

Chapter 6 **Developing High-Energy Dissipative Soliton 2 μm Tm3+-Doped**

Yulong Tang, Chongyuan Huang and Jianqiu Xu

Zaytsev, Wei-Jan Chen and Chao-Kuei Lee

Chapter 7 **Frequency-Synthesized Approach to High-Power Attosecond Pulse Generation and Applications: Generation and**

Ci-Ling Pan, Hong-Zhe Wang, Rui-Yin Lin, Chan-Shan Yang, Alexey
