Advances in laboratory-scale ptychography using high harmonic sources

L Loetgering, S Witte, J Rothhardt - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Extreme ultraviolet microscopy and wavefront sensing are key elements for next-generation
ultrafast applications, such as chemically-resolved imaging, focal spot diagnostics in pump …

Advances in instrumentation for FEL-based four-wave-mixing experiments

R Mincigrucci, L Foglia, D Naumenko… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Experimental approaches based on nonlinear optical processes (wave-mixing) have
allowed major breakthroughs in diverse fields of science and technology. Nevertheless …

Ptychographic reconstruction algorithm for frequency-resolved optical gating: super-resolution and supreme robustness

P Sidorenko, O Lahav, Z Avnat, O Cohen - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) is a very popular technique for complete
characterization of ultrashort laser pulses. In FROG, a reconstruction algorithm retrieves the …

Ptychographic reconstruction of attosecond pulses

M Lucchini, MH Brügmann, A Ludwig, L Gallmann… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a new attosecond pulse reconstruction modality which uses an algorithm
that is derived from ptychography. In contrast to other methods, energy and delay sampling …

Common pulse retrieval algorithm: a fast and universal method to retrieve ultrashort pulses

NC Geib, M Zilk, T Pertsch, F Eilenberger - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Many ultrashort laser pulse measurement schemes such as frequency-resolved optical
gating (FROG), interferometric FROG, dispersion scan, or time-domain ptychography require …

Perspective: Opportunities for ultrafast science at SwissFEL

R Abela, P Beaud, JA Van Bokhoven, M Chergui… - Structural …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present the main specifications of the newly constructed Swiss Free Electron Laser,
SwissFEL, and explore its potential impact on ultrafast science. In light of recent …

Fast iterative retrieval algorithm for ultrashort pulse characterization using dispersion scans

M Miranda, J Penedones, C Guo, A Harth… - Journal of the Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present an iterative retrieval algorithm based on data constraint for ultrashort pulse
characterization using dispersion scan (d-scan). The proposed algorithm is much faster and …

Time-domain ptychography

D Spangenberg, P Neethling, E Rohwer… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Through dedicated measurements in the optical regime we demonstrate that ptychography
can be applied to reconstruct complex-valued object functions that vary with time from a …

Spectrally tunable ultrashort monochromatized extreme ultraviolet pulses at 100 kHz

T Csizmadia, Z Filus, T Grósz, P Ye, L Gulyás Oldal… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present the experimental realization of spectrally tunable, ultrashort, quasi-
monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses generated at 100 kHz repetition rate in a …

Time-domain ptychography of over-octave-spanning laser pulses in the single-cycle regime

T Witting, D Greening, D Walke, P Matia-Hernando… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first application of time-domain ptychography for
the characterization of few-cycle laser pulses. Our method enables zero-additional phase …