Skirmantas Alisaukas

Curriculum Vitae:

Address:	Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Photonik, Gusshausstrasse 27/387, 1040 Wien, Austria tel: +43 1 58801 38777 fax: +43 1 58801 38799
Personalia:	Full name: Skirmantas Ališauskas Date of birth: May 23, 1982 Place of birth: Vilnius region, Lithuania
Degree:	Ph.D. degree received from Vilnius University (Lithuania) in 2010. Thesis entitled "Infrared few-cycle pulse optical parametric amplifier". M.Sc. degree received from Vilnius University (Lithuania) in 2006. Diploma thesis entitled "Investigation of Optical Synchronization of Sub 10 fs Ti:Sapphire Laser and Nd:YAG Regenerative Amplifier".
Education:	2011--now Postdoc at the TU Vienna in the Ultrafast Laser Group. 2006--2010 Ph.D. studies in the department of Quantum Electronics, Physical faculty, Vilnius University (Lithuania). 2004--2006 master studies in Physical faculty of Vilnius University (Lithuania). 2000--2004 bachelor studies in Physical faculty of Vilnius University (Lithuania).

Publication:

A.V. Mitrofanov, A.A. Voronin, D.A. Sidorov-Biryukov, S.I. Mitryukovsky, A.B. Fedotov, E.E. Serebryannikov, D.V. Meshchankin, V. Shumakova, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, V. Ya. Panchenko, A. Baltuška, and A. M. Zheltikov, Subterawatt few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from a single filament, Optica 3, 299 (2016).

A.V. Mitrofanov, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. A. Voronin, A. Pugžlys, G. Andriukaitis, E.A. Stepanov, S. Ališauskas, T. Flöry, A. B. Fedotov, V. Ya. Panchenko, A. Baltuška, and A. M. Zheltikov, Subtewatt femtosecond pulses in the mid-infrared range: new spatiotemporal dynamics of high-power electromagnetic fields, Phys.-Usp. 58, 89 (2015).

P.N. Malevich, R. Maurer, D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A.A. Lanin, A.M. Zheltikov, M. Marangoni, G. Cerullo, A. Baltuška, and A. Pugžlys, Stimulated Raman gas sensing by backward UV lasing from a femtosecond filament, Opt. Lett. 40, 2469 (2015).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. Puzgžlys, M.N. Shneider, and A. Baltuška, Theory of a filament initiated nitrogen laser, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 48, 094016 (2015).

A.V. Mitrofanov, A.A. Voronin, D.A. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. Pugžlys, E.A. Stepanov, G. Andriukaitis, T. Flöry, S. Ališauskas, A. B. Fedotov, A. Baltuška, and A. M. Zheltikov, Mid-infrared laser filaments in the atmosphere, Sci. Rep. 5, 8368 (2015).

J. Weisshaup, V. Juve, M. Holtz, Sh. Ku., M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, and A. Baltuška, High-brightness table-top hard x-ray source by sub-100 fs mid-infrared pulses, Nat. Photon. 8, 927-930 (2014).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. Baltuška, A. Schmitt-Sody, W. Roach, and P. Polynkin, Remotely pumped stimulated emission at 337 nm in atmospheric nitrogen, Phys. Rev. A 88, 041805(R) (2013).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Voronin, A. Zheltikov, M. Petrarca, P. Béjot, J. Kasparian, J-P. Wolf, and A. Baltuška, Mid-infrared laser filamentation in molecular gases, Opt. Lett. 38, 3194-3197 (2013).

P. Malevich, G. Andriukaitis, T. Flöry, A. J. Verhoef, A. Fernández, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, L. H. Tan, C. F. Chua, and P. B. Phua, High energy and average power femtosecond laser for driving mid-infrared optical parametric amplifiers, Opt. Lett. 38, 2746-2749 (2013).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, A. Pugzlys, M. Shneider, A. Zheltikov, S.L. Chin, and A. Baltuska, Free-space nitrogen gas laser driven by a femtosecond filament, Phys. Rev. A 86, 033831 (2012).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Voronin, A. Zheltikov, M. Petrarca, P. Béjot, J. Kasparian, J. Wolf, and A. Baltuška, White light generation over three octaves by femtosecond filament at 3.9 µm in argon, Opt. Lett. 37, 3456-3458 (2012).

P. N. Malevich, D. Kartashov, Z. Pu, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, A. Lanin, A. Zheltikov, M. Marangoni, and G. Cerullo, Ultrafast-laser-induced backward stimulated Raman scattering for tracing atmospheric gases, Opt. Express 20, 18784-18794 (2012).

D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugzžlys, A. Voronin, A. Zheltikov, and A. Baltuška, Third- and fifth-harmonic generationby mid-infrared ultrashort pulses:beyond the fifth-ordernonlinearity, Opt. Lett. 37, 2268-2270 (2012).

T. Popmintchev, M.C. Chen, D. Popmintchev, P. Arpin, S. Brown, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balčiūnas, O. Mücke, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, B. Shim, S.E. Schrauth, A. Gaeta, C. Hernández-García, L. Plaja, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, M.M. Murnane, and H.C. Kapteyn, Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the KeV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers, Science 336, 1287-1291 (2012).

A. A. Voronin, S. Ališauskas, O. D. Mücke, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, and A. M. Zheltikov, Nonparaxial pulse compression through spatial chirp management in a laser-induced filament, Phys. Rev. A 84, 023832 (2011).

G. Andriukaitis, T. Balčiūnas, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, T. Popmintchev, M. Chen, M. Murnane, and H. Kapteyn, 90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier, Opt. Lett. 36, 2755-2757 (2011).

S. Ališauskas, V. Smilgevičius, A. Piskarskas, O.D. Mücke, A. Verhoef, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and N. Forget, Efficient 4-fold selff-compression of millijoule pulses from a 1.5 μm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier, Lithuanian J. Phys. 50(1), 111-120 (2010).

O. D. Mücke, D. Sidorov, P. Dombi, A. Pugžlys, S. Ališauskas, V. Smilgevičius, N. Forget, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and A. Baltuška, 10-mJ Optically Synchronized CEP-Stable Chirped Parametric Amplifier at 1.5 μm, Opt. and Spect. 108, 456-462 (2010).

O.D. Mücke, S. Ališauskas, A.J. Verhoef, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, V. Smilgevičius, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and N. Forget, Toward TW-Peak-Power Single-Cycle IR Fields for Attosecond Physics and High-Field Science, in Advances in Solid-State Lasers: Development and Applications, edited by M. Grishin, 279 (INTECH, 2010), ISBN 978-953-7619-80-0.

S. Ališauskas, R. Butkus, V. Pyragaitė, V. Smilgevičius, A. Stabinis, A. Piskarskas, Prospects for increasing average power of optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers via multi-beam pumping, Opt. Commun. 283, 469-473 (2010).

A. Pugžlys, G. Andriukaitis, D. Sidorov, A. Irshad, A. Baltuška, W.J. Lai, P.B. Phua, L. Su, J. Xu, H. Li, R. Li, S. Ališauskas, A. Marcinkevičius, M. E. Fermann, L. Giniūnas and R. Danielius, Spectroscopy and lasing of cryogenically cooled Yb,Na:CaF₂, Appl. Phys. B, 339-350 (2009).

O. D. Mücke, S. Ališauskas, A. Verhoef, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, V. Smilgevičius, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and N. Forget, Self-compression of millijoule 1.5 μm pulses, Opt. Lett. 34, 2498-2500 (2009).

A. Pugžlys, G. Andriukaitis, A. Baltuška, L. Su, J. Xu, H. Li, R. Li, W. Lai, P. Phua, A. Marcinkevičius, M. Fermann, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and S. Ališauskas, Multi-mJ, 200-fs, cw-pumped, cryogenically cooled, Yb,Na:CaF₂ amplifier, Opt. Lett. 34, 2075-2077 (2009).

O.D. Mücke, D. Sidorov, P. Dombi, A. Pugžlys, S. Ališauskas, V. Smilgevičius, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and A. Baltuška, Scalable Yb-MOPA-Driven Carrier-Envelope Phase-Stable Few-Cycle Parametric Amplification at 1.5 μm, Opt. Lett. 34, 118-120 (2009).

O.D. Mücke, D. Sidorov, P. Dombi, A. Pugžlys, S. Ališauskas, N. Forget, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and A. Baltuška, Multimillijoule Optically Synchronized and Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Stable Chirped Parametric Amplification at 1.5 μm, in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, edited by P. Corkum, K. Nelson, E. Riedle, R. Schoenlein, and S. De Silvestri, 864 (Springer, Berlin, 2009).

S. Ališauskas, R. Butkus, A. Piskarskas, K. Regelskis, V. Smilgevičius, Modulation of spatial spectrum in tunable two crystal optical parametric generator, Opt. Commun. 280, 463-467 (2007).