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 …

Colloquium: Strong-field phenomena in periodic systems

SY Kruchinin, F Krausz, VS Yakovlev - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
The advent of visible-infrared laser pulses carrying a substantial fraction of their energy in a
single field oscillation cycle has opened a new era in the experimental investigation of …

Synthesized light transients

A Wirth, MT Hassan, I Grguraš, J Gagnon, A Moulet… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Manipulation of electron dynamics calls for electromagnetic forces that can be confined to
and controlled over sub-femtosecond time intervals. Tailored transients of light fields can …

Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub‐cycle optical waveforms

C Manzoni, OD Mücke, G Cirmi, S Fang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

Hybrid photonic-crystal fiber

C Markos, JC Travers, A Abdolvand, BJ Eggleton… - Reviews of Modern …, 2017 - APS
This article offers an extensive survey of results obtained using hybrid photonic-crystal fibers
(PCFs) which constitute one of the most active research fields in contemporary fiber optics …

Radio-frequency line-by-line Fourier synthesis based on optical soliton microcombs

B Wang, Z Yang, S Sun, X Yi - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency (RF) waveform synthesis has broad applications in ultrawide-bandwidth
wireless communications, radar systems, and electronic testing. Photonic-based …

Waveforms for optimal sub-keV high-order harmonics with synthesized two-or three-colour laser fields

C Jin, G Wang, H Wei, AT Le, CD Lin - Nature Communications, 2014 - nature.com
High-order harmonics extending to the X-ray region generated in a gas medium by intense
lasers offer the potential for providing tabletop broadband light sources but so far are limited …

Tracing and controlling electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses

LY Peng, WC Jiang, JW Geng, WH Xiong, Q Gong - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In this review, we will focus on the theoretical aspects in observing and controlling the
electronic dynamics in few-electron atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses in different …

Invited article: attosecond photonics: synthesis and control of light transients

MT Hassan, A Wirth, I Grguraš, A Moulet… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Ultimate control over light entails the capability of crafting its field waveform. Here, we detail
the technological advances that have recently permitted the synthesis of light transients …

Self-probing of molecules with high harmonic generation

S Haessler, J Caillat, P Salières - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This tutorial presents the most important aspects of the molecular self-probing paradigm,
which views the process of high harmonic generation as'a molecule being probed by one of …