The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

The development of femtosecond lasers brought entirely new possibilities into the practice of
timeresolved spectroscopy, for both UV-vis and IR-Raman spectroscopies. In addition, it has …

Ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy has revealed new classes of physical, chemical
and biological reactions, in which directed, deterministic motions of atoms have a key role …

Using ultrafast, time-resolved, 1.54 angstrom x-ray diffraction, thermal and ultrafast
nonthermal melting of germanium, involving passage through nonequilibrium extreme states …

Nobel Lecture: Extreme light physics and application* Page 1 Nobel Lecture: Extreme light
physics and application * Gerard Mourou † Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex …

Fundamental processes on the molecular level, such as vibrations and rotations in single
molecules, liquids or crystal lattices and the breaking and formation of chemical bonds …

Time-resolved x-ray diffraction with picosecond temporal resolution is used to observe
scattering from impulsively generated coherent acoustic phonons in laser-excited InSb …

This article gives an overview of recent x-ray diffraction experiments with time resolutions
down to 10− 13 s. The scientific motivation behind the development is outlined, using …

Ultrafast structural dynamics in laser-perturbed InSb are studied using time-resolved x-ray
diffraction with a novel femtosecond x-ray source. We report the first observation of a delay …

X-ray crystallography is generally thought of as exploring structure, not mechanism. The
essence of a chemical or biological mechanism is time-dependent change in structure, not …