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Quantitative characterization of the spatial structure of single photons is essential for free-space quantum communication and quantum imaging. We introduce an interferometric technique that enables the complete characterization of a…

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Attosecond X-ray pulses are indispensable for exploring ultrafast phenomena in matter on Angstrom and attosecond scales. Here we propose a new method to realize spatiotemporal shaping of attosecond X-rays through temporal control of the…

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Light-electron interaction in empty space is the seminal ingredient for free-electron lasers and also for controlling electron beams to dynamically investigate materials and molecules. Pushing the coherent control of free electrons by light…

The implementation of attosecond photoelectron-photoion coincidence spectroscopy for the investigation of atomic and molecular dynamics calls for a high-repetition-rate driving source combined with experimental setups characterized by…

We present an effective linear response approach to pump-probe femtosecond coherence spectroscopy in the well separated pulse limit. The treatment presented here is based on a displaced and squeezed state representation for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anand T. N. Kumar , Florin Rosca , Allan Widom , Paul M. Champion

Attosecond x-ray pulses offer unprecedented opportunities for probing and triggering new types of ultrafast motion. At the same time, pulse characterization of x-rays presents new challenges that do not exist in the UV regime. Inner-shell…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Stefan Pabst , Jan Marcus Dahlström

We report here an experimental setup to perform three-pulse pump-probe measurements over a wide wavelength and temperature range. By combining two pump pulses in the visible (650-900 nm) and mid-IR (5-20 $\mu$m) range, with a broadband…

Bright squeezed light from parametric down-conversion in the infrared (IR) frequency range has triggered the emergence of attosecond quantum optics -- a new research field at the interface of quantum optics, strong-field physics, and…

Until recently, attosecond optical spectroscopy and quantum optics evolved along non-overlapping directions. In attosecond science, attosecond pulses have been regarded as classical waves, applied to probe electron dynamics on their natural…

Atomic motion dynamics during structural changes or chemical reactions have been visualized by picosecond and femtosecond pulsed electron beams via ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy. Imaging the even faster dynamics of electrons…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-15 Martin Kozák , Norbert Schönenberger , Peter Hommelhoff

Double photo-electron momentum spectra of the Helium atom are calculated \textit{ab initio} at extreme ultra-violet and near infrared wavelengths. At short wavelengths two-photon double ionization yields, two-electron energy spectra, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Alejandro Zielinski , Vinay Pramod Majety , Armin Scrinzi

In virtual-state spectroscopy, information about the energy-level structure of an arbitrary sample is retrieved by Fourier transforming sets of measured two-photon absorption probabilities of entangled photon pairs where the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Lutz Mertenskötter , Kurt Busch , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

We describe an experiment to measure the emitted real-time electric field from an ultrafast third-order nonlinear optical interaction in molecules, using a phase-tracked spectral interferometry scheme. By combining a software lock-in…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-11 Siddhant Pandey , Francis Walz , Niranjan Shivaram

Attosecond science and frequency metrology rely on the precise measurement and control of the laser pulse waveform, a feat traditionally achieved using optoelectronic techniques. In this study, we conducted a laser-induced acoustic…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Meng Han , Ming-Chang Chen , Ming-Shian Tsai , Hao Liang

Tracking the coupled motion of electrons and nuclei on their intrinsic timescales is essential to understanding and controlling photochemical transformations. While attosecond techniques have provided unprecedented insight into electronic…

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

Coherent control over photoelectron wavepackets, via the use of polarization-shaped laser pulses, can be understood as a time and polarization-multiplexed process. In this work, we investigate this multiplexing via computation of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Paul Hockett , Matthias Wollenhaupt , Thomas Baumert

How quanta of energy and charge are transported on both atomic spatial and ultrafast time scales is at the heart of modern technology. Recent progress in ultrafast spectroscopy has allowed us to directly study the dynamical response of an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-28 R. Locher , L. Castiglioni , M. Lucchini , M. Greif , L. Gallmann , J. Osterwalder , M. Hengsberger , U. Keller

An optical coherent control scheme has been proposed and theoretically investigated where an extreme ultraviolet single attosecond pulse (SAP) propagates through a dense helium gas dressed by a time-delayed femtosecond laser pulse. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Wei-Chun Chu , C. D. Lin

Controlling the wave function of free electrons is important to improve the spatial resolution of electron microscopes, the efficiency of electron interaction with sample modes of interest, and our ability to probe ultrafast materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo