Attosecond metrology: from electron capture to future signal processing

F Krausz, MI Stockman - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The accurate measurement of time lies at the heart of experimental science, and is relevant
to everyday life. Extending chronoscopy to ever shorter timescales has been the key to …

Tracing and controlling electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses

LY Peng, WC Jiang, JW Geng, WH Xiong, Q Gong - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In this review, we will focus on the theoretical aspects in observing and controlling the
electronic dynamics in few-electron atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses in different …

High-harmonic generation from Bloch electrons in solids

M Wu, S Ghimire, DA Reis, KJ Schafer, MB Gaarde - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study the generation of high-harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model
transparent solid driven by a strong midinfrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time …

Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization

G Sansone, F Kelkensberg, JF Pérez-Torres, F Morales… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
For the past several decades, we have been able to directly probe the motion of atoms that
is associated with chemical transformations and which occurs on the femtosecond (10− 15 …

Experimental control of quantum-mechanical entanglement in an attosecond pump-probe experiment

LM Koll, L Maikowski, L Drescher, T Witting… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Entanglement is one of the most intriguing aspects of quantum mechanics and lies at the
heart of the ongoing second quantum revolution, where it is a resource that is used in …

Control of attosecond entanglement and coherence

MJJ Vrakking - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Calculations are presented of vibrational wave packet dynamics in H 2+ ions formed by
ionization of neutral H 2 by a pair of attosecond extreme ultraviolet laser pulses, using time …

Attosecond vacuum UV coherent control of molecular dynamics

P Ranitovic, CW Hogle, P Rivière… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
High harmonic light sources make it possible to access attosecond timescales, thus opening
up the prospect of manipulating electronic wave packets for steering molecular dynamics …

Attosecond control in photoionization of hydrogen molecules

F Kelkensberg, W Siu, JF Pérez-Torres, F Morales… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We report experiments where hydrogen molecules were dissociatively ionized by an
attosecond pulse train in the presence of a near-infrared field. Fragment ion yields from …

H2: the benchmark molecule for ultrafast science and technologies

H Ibrahim, C Lefebvre, AD Bandrauk… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article focuses on imaging and controlling ultrafast dynamics of the hydrogen
molecule and its cation, initiated by ultrashort laser pulses. We discuss the mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] A custom-tailored multi-TW optical electric field for gigawatt soft-X-ray isolated attosecond pulses

B Xue, Y Tamaru, Y Fu, H Yuan, P Lan, OD Mücke… - Ultrafast …, 2021 - spj.science.org
Since the first isolated attosecond pulse was demonstrated through high-order harmonics
generation (HHG) in 2001, researchers' interest in the ultrashort time region has expanded …