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We have carried out a deep search at 1.4 GHz for radio pulsed emission from six soft X-ray transient sources observed during their X-ray quiescent phase. The commonly accepted model for the formation of the millisecond radio pulsars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Burgay , L. Burderi , A. Possenti , N. D'Amico , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , F. Camilo

We propose a scheme allowing coherent shaping, i.e., controlling both the amplitude and phase, of attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers. We show that by seeding an FEL with a short coherent seed that overfills the amplification…

We demonstrate the potential of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) to advancethe understanding of complex plasma dynamics by allowing for the first time nanometer and femtosecond resolution at the same time in plasma diagnostics. Plasma…

A method to generate an intense isolated few-cycle attosecond XUV pulse is demonstrated using particle-in-cell simulations. When a tailored laser pulse with a sharp edge irradiates a foil target, a strong transverse net current can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Zi-Yu Chen , Xiao-Ya Li , Li-Ming Chen , Yu-Tong Li , Wen-Jun Zhu

The quantum cascade laser (QCL) has evolved to be a compact, powerful source of coherent mid-infrared (mid-IR) light. However, its fast gain dynamics strongly restricts the formation of ultrashort pulses. As such, the shortest pulses…

We demonstrate the ability to control and shape the spectro-temporal content of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses produced by a seeded free-electron laser (FEL). The control over the spectro-temporal properties of XUV light was achieved by…

We describe a new method for imaging ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter using inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS). We use the concepts of causality and irreversibility to construct a general solution to the inverse scattering problem (or…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-12 P. Abbamonte , G. C. L. Wong , D. Cahill , J. P. Reed , R. H. Coridan , N. W. Schmidt , G. H. Lai , Y. I. Joe , D. Casa

Short-wavelength free-electron lasers with their ultrashort pulses at high intensities have originated new approaches for tracking molecular dynamics from the vista of specific sites. X-ray pump X-ray probe schemes even allow to address…

Seeded Free Electron Lasers (FELs) demonstrate a good performance and are successfully used in different user experiments in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray regimes. In this paper a simple modification of the seeding scenario is proposed…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 E. Schneidmiller , I. Zagorodnov

Using SEA TADPOLE with micrometer-range spatial and femtosecond-range temporal resolution, we report the first direct spatiotemporal measurements of ultrashort Bessel-X pulses. We demonstrate their propagation invariance and superluminal…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Bowlan , R. Trebino , H. Valtna-Lukner , M. Lohmus , P. Piksarv , P. Saari

This paper presents a novel pulse-reconstruction method well suited to sparsely sampled repetitive data, such as commonly arise from trains of ultrashort laser-pulses. Typically waveforms in such traces are fully instrument-limited by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 J. Tang , N. Souleles , A. Hwang , L. Coulter , D. Bani , R. Marjoribanks

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulses, generated by a process known as laser-induced electron recollision, are a key ingredient for attosecond metrology, providing a tool to precisely initiate and probe sub-femtosecond dynamics in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Yunpei Deng , Zhinan Zeng , Zhengmao Jia , Pavel Komm , Yinhui Zheng , Xiaochun Ge , Ruxin Li , Gilad Marcus

Accurate characterization of radiation pulse profiles is crucial for optimizing beam quality and enhancing experimental outcomes in Free Electron Laser (FEL) research. In this paper, we present a novel approach that employs machine learning…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Till Korten , Vladimir Rybnikov , Peter Steinbach , Najmeh Mirian

With their brilliance and temporal structure, X-ray free-electron laser can unveil atomic-scale details of ultrafast phenomena. Recent progress in split-and-delay optics (SDO), which produces two X-ray pulses with time-delays, offers bright…

XFELs provide X-ray pulses with unprecedented peak brightness and ultrashort duration. They are usually driven by planar undulators, meaning that the output radiation is linearly polarized. For many experimental applications, however,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Svitozar Serkez , Gianluca Geloni , Vitali Kocharyan , Evgeni Saldin

X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) deliver X-ray pulses with a coherent flux that is approximately eight orders of magnitude greater than that available from a modern third generation synchrotron source. The power density in an XFEL pulse…

Baseline design of a typical X-ray FEL undulator assumes a planar configuration which results in a linear polarization of the FEL radiation. However, many experiments at X-ray FEL user facilities would profit from using a circularly…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

Through examining the product of the mathematical variance of intensity with respect to time and frequency, we arrive at a temporal characterization of laser pulses through parameters for pulse duration, group delay dispersion and temporal…

This paper describes a novel single-bunch self-seeding scheme for generating highly monochromatic X-rays from a baseline XFEL undulator. Previous schemes made use of a four-crystal fixed-exit monochromator in Bragg geometry. In such…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 Gianluca Geloni , Vitali Kocharyan , Evgeni Saldin

As Ultrafast laser technology advances towards ever higher peak and average powers, generating sub-50 fs pulses from laser architectures that exhibit best power-scaling capabilities remains a major challenge. Here, we present a very compact…