The past two decades have seen rapid developments in short-pulse X-ray sources, which
have enabled the study of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies …

In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

Building upon the success and relevance of the 2014 Magnetism Roadmap, this 2017
Magnetism Roadmap edition follows a similar general layout, even if its focus is naturally …

This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For
the first time, this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight directly into the time …

High-harmonic generation (HHG) traditionally combines~ 100 near-infrared laser photons to
generate bright, phase-matched, extreme ultraviolet beams when the emission from many …

Circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet and X-ray radiation is useful for analysing the
structural, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. To date, such radiation has only …

An overview of different chemical complexes studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
(XMCD) is presented. We intend to show to the chemistry community the possibilities of this …

The frequency doubling of laser light was one of the first new phenomena observed
following the invention of the laser over 50 years ago. Since then, the quest to extend …

The vision of using light to manipulate electronic and spin excitations in materials on their
fundamental time and length scales requires new approaches in experiment and theory to …

The development of lasers capable of producing high-intensity pulses has opened a new
area in the study of light-matter interactions. The corresponding laser fields are strong …