Substantial progress has been made in the average power and pulse energy from the ultrafast thin-disk lasers since the invention of the thin-disk technology， promoting significantly the applications of the ultrafast thin-disk lasers in many fields such as fundamental research， industry，biomedical science， and so on. In this work， the development of the ultrafast thin-disk lasers with respect to the concept of thin-disk technology， the mode-locked thin-disk oscillators and thin-disk amplifiers is reviewed， and its future development prospect is presented.