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Collaborations and joint research projects with international entities and partners provide a strong R&D workforce in the ultrafast laser world, allowing for the development of innovative products and solutions with the most advanced competitive advantages in all Sphere Ultrafast Photonics portfolio and custom systems.

Papers and Articles

Spatio-temporal diagnosis of few-cycle 3.2 µm pulses from a mid-IR OPCPA system
Roland S. Nagymihály, Bálint Kiss, Miguel Miranda, Matias Charrut, Paulo T. Guerreiro, Levente Lehotai, Rajaram Shrestha, Eric Cormier, and Rosa Romero
21 Apr 2025 / Vol. 33, No.8, pp. 17551-17559 / Optics Express
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-33-8-17551

Single-shot, high-repetition rate carrier-envelope-phase detection of ultrashort laser pulses
Chen Guo, Miguel Miranda, Ann-Kathrin Raab, Anne-Lise Viotti, Paulo T. Guerreiro, Rosa Romero, Helder Crespo, Anne L’Huillier, and Cord L. Arnold
15 October 2023 / Vol. 48, No. 20, pp. 5431-5434 / Optics Letters
https://opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-48-20-5431&id=540821

Characterizing ultrashort laser pulses with second harmonic dispersion scans
I. Sytcevich, C. Guo, S. Mikaelsson, J. Vogelsang, A.-L. Viotti, B. Alonso, R. Romero, P. T. Guerreiro, Í. J. Sola, A. L’Huillier, H. Crespo, M. Miranda, and C. L. Arnold
May 2021 / Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 1546-1555 / Journal of the Optical Society of America B
https://opg.optica.org/josab/fulltext.cfm?uri=josab-38-5-1546&id=450190

Single-shot d-scan technique for ultrashort laser pulse characterization using transverse second-harmonic generation in random nonlinear crystals
F. J. Salgado-Remacha, B. Alonso, H. Crespo, C. Cojocaru, J. Trull, R. Romero, M. López-Ripa, P. T. Guerreiro, F. Silva, M. Miranda, A. L’Huillier, C. L. Arnold, and Í. J. Sola
15 July 2020 / Vol. 45, No. 14, pp. 3925-3928 / Optics Letters
https://opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-45-14-3925&id=433292

In situ temporal measurement of ultrashort laser pulses at full power during high-intensity laser–matter interactions
Helder M. Crespo, Tobias Witting, Miguel Canhota, Miguel Miranda, and John W. G. Tisch
August 2020 / Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 995-1002 / Optica
https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-7-8-995

Detection and elimination of pulse train instabilities in broadband fibre lasers using dispersion scan
B. Alonso, S. Torres-Peiró, R. Romero, P. T. Guerreiro, A. Almagro-Ruiz, H. Muñoz-Marco, P. Pérez-Millán, and H. crespo
Scientific Reports | (2020) 10:7242 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64109-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64109-x

All-optical measurement of the complete waveform of octave-spanning ultrashort light pulses
M. Miranda, F. Silva, L. Neoricic, C. Guo, V. Pervak, M. Canhota, A. S. Silva, I. J. Sola, R. Romero, P. T. Guerreiro, A. L’Huillier, C. L. Arnold, and H. Crespo
15 January 2019 / Vol. 44, No. 2 / Optics Letters
https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-44-2-191

SyncRGB-FLIM: synchronous fluorescence imaging of red, green and blue dyes enabled by ultra-broadband few-cycle laser excitation and fluorescence lifetime detection
C. Maibohm, F. Silva, E. Figueiras, P. T. Guerreiro, M. Brito, R. Romero, H. Crespo, and J. B. Nieder
1 Apr 2019 / Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1891-1904 / BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-10-4-1891

Evaluation of the Coherent Artifact in Ultrashort Laser Pulses using D-scan and its Application to Broadband Fiber Lasers
B. Alonso, S. Torres-Peiró, R. Romero, P. T. Guerreiro, H. Muñoz-Marco, P. Pérez-Millán, H. Crespo
2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (OSA, 2019), paper cf_p_48
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_Europe-2019-cf_p_48

Propagation effects in the characterization of 1.5-cycle pulses by XPW dispersion scan
A. Tajalli, M. Ouille, A. Vernier, F. Bohle, E. Escoto, S. Kleinert, R. Romero, J. Csontos, U. Morgner, G. Steinmeyer, H. Crespo, R. Lopez Martens, and T. Nagy
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics ( Volume: 25 , Issue: 4 , July-Aug. 2019 )
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8447506

Strategies for achieving intense single-cycle pulses with in-line post-compression setups
F. Silva, B. Alonso, W. Holgado, R. Romero, J. San Roman, E. Conejero Jarque, H. Koop, V. Pervak, H. Crespo, and I. J. Sola
15 January 2018 / Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 337-340 / Optics Letters
https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-43-2-337

Universal route to optimal few- to single-cycle pulse generation in hollow-core fiber compressors
E. Conejero Jarque, J. San Roman, F. Silva, R. Romero, W. Holgado, M. A. Gonzalez-Galicia, B. Alonso, I. J. Sola, and H. Crespo
Scientific Reports / (2018) 8:2256 / DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-20580-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20580-1

Self-calibrating d-scan: measuring ultrashort laser pulses on-target using an arbitrary pulse compressor
Benjamín Alonso, Íñigo J. Sola, and Helder Crespo
Scientific Reports / (2018) 8:3264 / DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21701-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21701-6

Generation and in-situ measurement of the full electric field of near-single-cycle light pulses by CEP dispersion-scan
F. Silva, R. Romero, M. Miranda, P. Guerreiro, M. Canhota, H. Koop, V. Pervak, I. J. Solá, and H. Crespo
Ultrafast Optics 2017, In Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering 10606. p.25 (2018)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10606/1060601/Ultrafast-Optics-2017-Abstract-Book/10.1117/12.2310152.full?SSO=1

A compact single-shot d-scan setup for the characterization of few-cycle laser pulses
M. Louisy, C. Guo, L. Neoric, S. Zhong, A. L’Huillier, C. L. Arnold, and M. Miranda
10 November 2017 / Vol. 56, No. 32, pp. 9084-9089 / Applied Optics
https://opg.optica.org/ao/fulltext.cfm?uri=ao-56-32-9084&id=376731

Monolithic single-shot dispersion-scan: a new tool for real-time measurement and optimization of femtosecond pulses
Francisco Silva, Íñigo J. Sola, Helder Crespo, Rosa Romero, Miguel Miranda, Cord L. Arnold, Anne L’Huillier, Jose Trull, and Crina Cojocaru
2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference, (OSA, 2017), paper CF_11_3.
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_Europe-2017-CF_11_3

Carrier-envelope-phase insensitivity in high-order harmonic generation driven by few-cycle laser pulses
C. Hernádez-García, W. Holgado, L. Plaja, B. Alonso, F. Silva, M. Miranda, H. Crespo, and I. J. Sola
10 Aug 2015 / Vol. 23, No. 16 / DOI:10.1364/OE.23.021497 / OPTICS EXPRESS 21497
https://www.nosapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-23-16-21497

Single-shot implementation of dispersion-scan for the characterization of ultrashort laser pulses
D. Fabris, W. Holgado, F. Silva, T. Witting, J. W. G. Tisch, and H. Crespo
14 Dec 2015 / Vol. 23, No. 25, pp. 32803-328008 / DOI:10.1364/OE.23.032803 / OPTICS EXPRESS
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-23-25-32803

Compression of CEP-stable multi-mJ laser pulses down to 4 fs in long hollow fibers
Frederik Böhle, Martin Kretschmar, Aurélie Jullien, Mate Kovacs, Miguel Miranda, Rosa Romero, Helder Crespo, Uwe Morgner, Peter Simon, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, and Tamas Nagy
June 2014 / Vol. 11 (9):095401 (6pp) / DOI:10.1088/1612-2011/11/9/095401 / Laser Physics Letters
http://iopscience.iop.org/1612-202X/11/9/095401;jsessionid=6F899613B8CB152FC520F4CB0033E674.c1

Simultaneous compression, characterization and phase stabilization of GW-level 1.4 cycle VIS-NIR femtosecond pulses using a single dispersion-scan setup
Francisco Silva, Miguel Miranda, Benjamín Alonso, Jens Rauschenberger, Vladimir Pervak, and Helder Crespo
5 May 2014 / Vol. 22, No. 9 / DOI:10.1364/OE.22.010181 / OPTICS EXPRESS 10181
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-22-9-10181

Ultrashort laser pulse characterization from dispersion scans: a comparison with SPIDER
Miguel Miranda, Piotr Rudawski, Chen Guo, Francisco Silva, Cord L. Arnold, Thomas Binhammer, Helder Crespo, and Anne L’Huillier
CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper JTh2A.31
https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2013.JTh2A.31

Near to mid-IR ultra-broadband third harmonic generation in multilayer graphene: few-cycle pulse measurement using THG dispersion-scan
Francisco Silva, Miguel Miranda, Stephan Teichmann, M Baudish, Mathieu Massicotte, Frank Koppens, Jens Biegert, and Helder Crespo
CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper CW1H.5
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_SI-2013-CW1H.5

Measuring few-cycle laser pulses: a comparative study between dispersion- scan and FROG
Francisco Silva, Miguel Miranda, and Helder Crespo
2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – International Quantum Electronics Conference, (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper CFIE_P_17
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=IQEC-2013-CFIE_P_17

Characterization of sub-two-cycle pulses from a hollow-core fiber compressor in the spatiotemporal and spatiospectral domains
Benjamín Alonso, Miguel Miranda, Francisco Silva, Vladimir Pervak, Jens Rauschenberger, Julio San Román, Íñigo J. Sola, and Helder Crespo
27 March 2013 / Vol. 112, No.1, pp.105-114 / Applied Physics B
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00340-013-5406-5

Characterization of broadband few-cycle laser pulses with the d-scan technique
Miguel Miranda, Cord L. Arnold, Thomas Fordell, Francisco Silva, Benjamín Alonso, Rosa Weigand, Anne L’Huillier, and Helder Crespo
13 August 2012 / Vol. 20, No. 17, pp. 18732-18743 / OPTICS EXPRESS
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-20-17-18732

Spatiotemporal characterization of few-cycle laser pulses
Benjamín Alonso, Miguel Miranda, Íñigo J. Sola, and Helder Crespo
30 July 2012 / Vol. 20, No. 16, pp. 17880-17893 / OPTICS EXPRESS
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-20-16-17880

Simultaneous compression and characterization of ultrashort laser pulses using chirped mirrors and glass wedges
Miguel Miranda, Thomas Fordell, Cord Arnold, Anne L’Huillier, and Helder Crespo
2 January 2012 / Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 688-697 / OPTICS EXPRESS
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-20-1-688