High-energy pulse self-compression and ultraviolet generation through soliton dynamics in hollow capillary fibres

JC Travers, TF Grigorova, C Brahms, F Belli - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical soliton dynamics can cause extreme alteration of the temporal and spectral shape of
a propagating light pulse. This occurs at up to kilowatt peak powers in glass-core optical …

Attosecond optoelectronic field measurement in solids

S Sederberg, D Zimin, S Keiber, F Siegrist… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The sub-cycle interaction of light and matter is one of the key frontiers of inquiry made
accessible by attosecond science. Here, we show that when light excites a pair of charge …

Characterizing ultrashort laser pulses with second harmonic dispersion scans

I Sytcevich, C Guo, S Mikaelsson… - Journal of the Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The dispersion scan (d-scan) technique has emerged as a simple-to-implement
characterization method for ultrashort laser pulses. D-scan traces are intuitive to interpret …

Intense few-cycle visible pulses directly generated via nonlinear fibre mode mixing

R Piccoli, JM Brown, YG Jeong, A Rovere, L Zanotto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely short, high-energy pulses are essential in modern ultrafast science. In a seminal
paper in 1996, Nisoli and co-workers demonstrated the first intense pulse compression …

High-contrast, intense single-cycle pulses from an all thin-solid-plate setup

M Seo, K Tsendsuren, S Mitra, M Kling, D Kim - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
High-contrast, intense single-cycle pulses are highly desirable tools in ultrafast science,
enabling highest temporal resolution, pushing matter to extreme conditions, and serving as …

Complete spatiotemporal and polarization characterization of ultrafast vector beams

B Alonso, I Lopez-Quintas, W Holgado… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The use of structured ultrashort pulses with coupled spatiotemporal properties is emerging
as a key tool for ultrafast manipulation. Ultrafast vector beams are opening exciting …

Self-calibrating d-scan: measuring ultrashort laser pulses on-target using an arbitrary pulse compressor

B Alonso, ÍJ Sola, H Crespo - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In most applications of ultrashort pulse lasers, temporal compressors are used to achieve a
desired pulse duration in a target or sample, and precise temporal characterization is …

Characterization of ultrashort vector pulses from a single amplitude swing measurement

C Barbero, B Alonso, ÍJ Sola - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Ultrashort vector pulses exhibit time-and frequency-dependent polarization, sparking
significant interest across various fields. Simple, robust, and versatile characterization …

Compact in-line temporal measurement of laser pulses with amplitude swing

B Alonso, W Holgado, ÍJ Sola - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A method of ultrashort laser pulse reconstruction is presented, consisting on the analysis of
the nonlinear signal obtained from the interference of the pulse with a replica of itself at a …

Generalizing amplitude swing modulation for versatile ultrashort pulse measurement

M López-Ripa, ÍJ Sola, B Alonso - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work we broaden the amplitude modulation concept applied to the temporal
characterization of ultrashort laser pulses with the amplitude swing technique. We …