SwissFEL: the Swiss X-ray free electron laser

CJ Milne, T Schietinger, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in …

The ELI-ALPS facility: the next generation of attosecond sources

S Kühn, M Dumergue, S Kahaly… - Journal of Physics B …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the technological infrastructure that will be available at the Extreme
Light Infrastructure Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS) international facility. ELI …

[PDF][PDF] SwissFEL Aramis beamline photon diagnostics

P Juranić, J Rehanek, CA Arrell… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
The SwissFEL Aramis beamline, covering the photon energies between 1.77 keV and 12.7
keV, features a suite of online photon diagnostics tools to help both users and FEL operators …

Streak camera for strong-field ionization

M Kübel, Z Dube, AY Naumov, M Spanner… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Ionization of an atom or molecule by a strong laser field produces suboptical cycle wave
packets whose control has given rise to attosecond science. The final states of the wave …

The extreme light infrastructure—Attosecond light pulse source (ELI-ALPS) project

D Charalambidis, V Chikán, E Cormier… - Progress in Ultrafast …, 2017 - Springer
Globally, large international research infrastructures have over many decades promoted
excellence in science and technology. Aligned with the international practice, the Europe …

Air-photonics based terahertz source and detection system

E Prost, V Loriot, E Constant, I Compagnon… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Two-color air plasma-based broadband terahertz (THz) generation and subsequent air-
biased coherent detection (ABCD) of the THz field are presented. Both source and detection …

Towards the complete phase profiling of attosecond wave packets

J Fuchs, N Douguet, S Donsa, F Martín… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Realistic attosecond wave packets have complex profiles that, in dispersive conditions,
rapidly broaden or split in multiple components. Such behaviors are encoded in sharp …

Air-photonics terahertz platform with versatile micro-controller based interface and data acquisition

E Prost, V Loriot, E Constant, I Compagnon… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present a terahertz (THz) platform employing air plasma produced by an ultrashort two-
color laser pulse as a broadband THz source and air biased coherent detection (ABCD) of …

[PDF][PDF] Correlation of refractive index based and THz streaking arrival time tools for a hard X-ray free-electron laser

W Błachucki, PJM Johnson, I Usov… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
To fully exploit ultra-short X-ray pulse durations routinely available at X-ray free-electron
lasers to follow out-of-equilibrium dynamics, inherent arrival time fluctuations of the X-ray …

THz streak camera performance for single-shot characterization of XUV pulses with complex temporal structures

T Oelze, O Kulyk, B Schütte, U Frühling, E Klimešová… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The THz-field-driven streak camera has proven to be a powerful diagnostic-technique that
enables the shot-to-shot characterization of the duration and the arrival time jitter of free …