Advancing time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy: The role of ultrafast laser development

MX Na, AK Mills, DJ Jones - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last decade, there has been a proliferation of laser sources for time-and angle-
resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES), building on the proven capability of this …

Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

Time-domain observation of interlayer exciton formation and thermalization in a MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure

VR Policht, H Mittenzwey, O Dogadov, M Katzer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vertical heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host interlayer excitons
with electrons and holes residing in different layers. With respect to their intralayer …

KGW and YVO4: two excellent nonlinear materials for high repetition rate infrared supercontinuum generation

V Marčiulionytė, K Reggui, G Tamošauskas… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present an experimental investigation of supercontinuum generation in potassium
gadolinium tungstate (KGW) and yttrium vanadate (YVO_4) crystals pumped with 210 fs …

10-µJ few-cycle 12-µm source based on difference-frequency generation driven by a 1-kHz mid-wave infrared OPCPA

M Duda, L Von Grafenstein, M Bock, D Ueberschaer… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report on high-energy, few-cycle pulse generation in the long-wave infrared spectral
region via difference-frequency generation (DFG) in GaSe and AgGaSe_2 nonlinear …

Optical Properties and Ultrafast Near‐Infrared Localized Surface Plasmon Dynamics in Naturally p‐Type Digenite Films

A Villa, M Telkhozhayeva, F Marangi… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Copper chalcogenides are materials characterized by intrinsic doping properties, allowing
them to display high carrier concentrations due to their defect‐heavy structures, independent …

Spectral broadening of µJ-level pulses around 8 µm in a Germanium-based multi-pass scheme

F Gucci, A Baserga, L Moretti, D Gatti, M Corti… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A 2.6-fold spectral broadening of mid-infrared femtosecond µJ-level pulses has been
achieved using an unfolded multi-pass configuration of germanium plates and zinc selenide …

[HTML][HTML] 5–13.5 μm broadband tunable long-wave infrared femtosecond laser

Y Liu, J Qian, R Feng, W Li, Y Li, Y Peng, Y Leng - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a broadband tunable femtosecond laser source in the long-wave infrared
(LWIR) band, covering the range of 5–13.5 μm, based on the integration of optical …

Sub-three-cycle pulses at 2 µm from a degenerate optical parametric amplifier

KR Keller, A Budweg, J Allerbeck, D Brida - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this work we present a compact two-stage optical parametric amplifier (OPA) pumped at
degeneracy by the fundamental of a Yb: KGW laser system. The output pulses span from 1.7 …

Broadly tunable femtosecond optical parametric amplifiers in the mid-infrared waveband based on cascaded noncollinear-collinear KTiOAsO4 crystals

C Yuan, R Zhang, Z Yu, Z Zhang - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
We demonstrate a widely tunable, ultrafast optical parametric amplifier (OPA) based on
cascaded noncollinear-collinear KTiOAsO 4 (KTA) crystals seeded by a white light …