| Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses D Strickland, G Mourou Optics communications 55 (6), 447-449, 1985 | 7680 | 1985 |
| Optics in the relativistic regime GA Mourou, T Tajima, SV Bulanov Reviews of modern physics 78 (2), 309-371, 2006 | 2347 | 2006 |
| Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air A Braun, G Korn, X Liu, D Du, J Squier, G Mourou Optics letters 20 (1), 73-75, 1995 | 1899 | 1995 |
| Terawatt to petawatt subpicosecond lasers MD Perry, G Mourou Science 264 (5161), 917-924, 1994 | 1632 | 1994 |
| Generation of ultrahigh peak power pulses by chirped pulse amplification P Maine, D Strickland, P Bado, M Pessot, G Mourou IEEE Journal of Quantum electronics 24 (2), 398-403, 1988 | 1560 | 1988 |
| Laser ablation and micromachining with ultrashort laser pulses X Liu, D Du, G Mourou IEEE journal of quantum electronics 33 (10), 1706-1716, 1997 | 1505 | 1997 |
| Laser‐induced breakdown by impact ionization in SiO2 with pulse widths from 7 ns to 150 fs D Du, X Liu, G Korn, J Squier, G Mourou Applied physics letters 64 (23), 3071-3073, 1994 | 1436 | 1994 |
| Highly efficient relativistic-ion generation in the laser-piston regime T Esirkepov, M Borghesi, SV Bulanov, G Mourou, T Tajima Physical review letters 92 (17), 175003, 2004 | 1369 | 2004 |
| Femtosecond optical breakdown in dielectrics M Lenzner, J Krüger, S Sartania, Z Cheng, C Spielmann, G Mourou, ... Physical review letters 80 (18), 4076, 1998 | 1365 | 1998 |
| Ultra-high intensity-300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate. V Yanovsky, V Chvykov, G Kalinchenko, P Rousseau, T Planchon, ... Optics Express 16 (3), 2109-2114, 2008 | 994 | 2008 |
| Ultrahigh‐intensity lasers: Physics of the extreme on a tabletop GA Mourou, CPJ Barry, MD Perry Physics today 51 (1), 22-28, 1998 | 889 | 1998 |
| Time-resolved observation of electron-phonon relaxation in copper HE Elsayed-Ali, TB Norris, MA Pessot, GA Mourou Physical review letters 58 (12), 1212, 1987 | 881 | 1987 |
| Short-pulse laser damage in transparent materials as a function of pulse duration AC Tien, S Backus, H Kapteyn, M Murnane, G Mourou Physical Review Letters 82 (19), 3883, 1999 | 857 | 1999 |
| Machining of sub-micron holes using a femtosecond laser at 800 nm PP Pronko, SK Dutta, J Squier, JV Rudd, D Du, G Mourou Optics communications 114 (1-2), 106-110, 1995 | 715 | 1995 |
| Method for controlling configuration of laser induced breakdown and ablation GA Mourou, D Du, SK Dutta, V Elner, R Kurtz, PR Lichter, X Liu, ... US Patent 5,656,186, 1997 | 694* | 1997 |
| Nonlinear optics in relativistic plasmas and laser wake field acceleration of electrons D Umstadter, SY Chen, A Maksimchuk, G Mourou, R Wagner Science 273 (5274), 472-475, 1996 | 627 | 1996 |
| Subpicosecond carrier lifetime in GaAs grown by molecular beam epitaxy at low temperatures S Gupta, MY Frankel, JA Valdmanis, JF Whitaker, GA Mourou, FW Smith, ... Applied Physics Letters 59 (25), 3276-3278, 1991 | 601 | 1991 |
| Generation and characterization of the highest laser intensities (1022 W/cm2) SW Bahk, P Rousseau, TA Planchon, V Chvykov, G Kalintchenko, ... Optics letters 29 (24), 2837-2839, 2004 | 598 | 2004 |
| Corneal refractive surgery with femtosecond lasers T Juhasz, FH Loesel, RM Kurtz, C Horvath, JF Bille, G Mourou IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics 5 (4), 902-910, 1999 | 578 | 1999 |
| Subpicosecond electrooptic sampling: Principles and applications J Valdmanis, G Mourou IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 22 (1), 69-78, 1986 | 529 | 1986 |
