Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

J Duris, S Li, T Driver, EG Champenois… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum-mechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the sub-
femtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires …

Optical waveform synthesis and its applications

G Cirmi, RE Mainz, MA Silva‐Toledo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The quest for ever‐shorter optical pulses has been ongoing for over half a century. Although
few‐cycle pulses have been generated for nearly 40 years, pulse lengths below the single …

Generation of attosecond light pulses from gas and solid state media

S Chatziathanasiou, S Kahaly, E Skantzakis… - Photonics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Real-time observation of ultrafast dynamics in the microcosm is a fundamental approach for
understanding the internal evolution of physical, chemical and biological systems. Tools for …

Attosecond pulse metrology

I Orfanos, I Makos, I Liontos, E Skantzakis, B Förg… - Apl Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The long-standing scientific quest of real-time tracing electronic motion and dynamics in all
states of matter has been remarkably benefited by the development of intense laser-based …

Enhancing high-order harmonic generation in light molecules by using chirped pulses

M Lara-Astiaso, REF Silva, A Gubaydullin, P Rivière… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
One of the current challenges in high-harmonic generation is to extend the harmonic cutoff
to increasingly high energies while maintaining or even increasing the efficiency of the high …

Time-resolved investigation of a high-repetition-rate gas-jet target for high-harmonic generation

B Nagyillés, Z Diveki, A Nayak, M Dumergue… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
High-repetition-rate gas targets constitute an essential component in intense laser matter
interaction studies. The technology becomes challenging as the repetition rate approaches …

High-order harmonic generation in a strongly overdriven regime

B Major, K Kovács, E Svirplys, M Anus, O Ghafur… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) normally requires a careful adjustment of the driving
laser intensity (typically 10 14–10 15 W/cm 2) and gas medium parameters to obtain a …

Robust, tunable, and high purity triggered single photon source at room temperature using a nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond in an open microcavity

PR Dolan, S Adekanye, AAP Trichet, S Johnson… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report progress in the development of tunable room temperature triggered single photon
sources based on single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in nanodiamond coupled to open …

Enhanced XUV harmonics generation from diatomic gases using two orthogonally polarized laser fields

GS Boltaev, M Iqbal, NA Abbasi, VV Kim, RA Ganeev… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Enhanced high repetition rate coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) harmonics represent
efficient probe of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules and solids. In this work, we used …

Perspective: Towards single shot time-resolved microscopy using short wavelength table-top light sources

T Helk, M Zürch, C Spielmann - Structural Dynamics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Time-resolved imaging allows revealing the interaction mechanisms in the microcosm of
both inorganic and biological objects. While X-ray microscopy has proven its advantages for …