Progress on table-top isolated attosecond light sources

K Midorikawa - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Research on isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) based on high-order harmonic generation
changed substantially around 2010. Before then, the Ti: sapphire laser was the de facto …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

53-attosecond X-ray pulses reach the carbon K-edge

J Li, X Ren, Y Yin, K Zhao, A Chew, Y Cheng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The motion of electrons in the microcosm occurs on a time scale set by the atomic unit of
time—24 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses at photon energies corresponding to the …

Real-time observation of electronic, vibrational, and rotational dynamics in nitric oxide with attosecond soft x-ray pulses at 400 eV

N Saito, H Sannohe, N Ishii, T Kanai, N Kosugi, Y Wu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Photoinduced quantum dynamics in molecules have hierarchical temporal structures with
different energy scales that are associated with electron and nuclear motions. Femtosecond …

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 …

Nanoscale magnetic imaging using circularly polarized high-harmonic radiation

O Kfir, S Zayko, C Nolte, M Sivis, M Möller, B Hebler… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
This work demonstrates nanoscale magnetic imaging using bright circularly polarized high-
harmonic radiation. We utilize the magneto-optical contrast of worm-like magnetic domains …

Direct and indirect excitons in boron nitride polymorphs: A story of atomic configuration and electronic correlation

L Sponza, H Amara, C Attaccalite, S Latil, T Galvani… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present a detailed discussion of the electronic band structure and excitonic dispersion of
hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in the single layer configuration and in three bulk polymorphs …

Attosecond light sources in the water window

X Ren, J Li, Y Yin, K Zhao, A Chew, Y Wang… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
As a compact and burgeoning alternative to synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers,
high harmonic generation (HHG) has proven its superiority in static and time-resolved …

Femtosecond valley polarization and topological resonances in transition metal dichalcogenides

SA Oliaei Motlagh, JS Wu, V Apalkov, MI Stockman - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We theoretically introduce the fundamentally fastest induction of a significant population and
valley polarization in a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide (ie, MoS 2 and WS 2) …

Metrology of time-domain soft X-ray attosecond pulses and reevaluation of pulse durations of three recent experiments

X Zhao, SJ Wang, WW Yu, H Wei, C Wei, B Wang… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Attosecond pulses in the soft x-ray (SXR) to water-window energy region offer the tools for
creating and studying target-specific localized inner-shell electrons or holes in materials …