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We propose a concept for production of high power coherent attosecond pulses in X-ray range. An approach is based on generation of 8th harmonic of radiation in a multistage HGHG FEL (high gain high harmonic free electron laser)…

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The interaction between an ultrastrong laser and a cone-like target is an efficient approach to generate high power radiations like attosecond pulses and terahertz waves. The object is to study the $\gamma$-ray generation under this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Cui-Wen Zhang , Yi-Xuan Zhu , Jian-Feng Lv , Bai-Song Xie

We present an efficient method to produce laser-triggered proton pulses well below 500 ps pulse width at keV energies. We use femtosecond photoelectron pulses emitted from a cathode to enable ultrafast electron-stimulated desorption of…

An experimental study of laser pulse duration influence on the terahertz emission during single-color filamentation is carried out. It is shown that for each terahertz frequency there is an optimal laser pulse duration providing maximal…

A practical approach is proposed for efficiently generating ultrashort attosecond pulses (APs) from realistic solid-state materials, aiming to optimize pulse width effectively. By adjusting the photon energy while maintaining a constant…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xinyuan Zhang , Shiqi Hu , Mengxue Guan , Sheng Meng

In recent synchrotron radiation facilities, the use of short (picosecond) electron bunches is a powerful method for producing giant pulses of Terahertz Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (THz CSR). Here we report on the first direct observation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 C. Evain , E. Roussel , M. Le Parquier , C. Szwaj , M. -A. Tordeux , L. Manceron , J. -B. Brubach , P. Roy , S. Bielawski

We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of spatio-temporal propagation effects in terahertz (THz) generation in gases using two-color ionizing laser pulses. The observed strong broadening of the THz spectra with increasing…

The attosecond light source provides an advanced tool for investigating electron motion using time-resolved-spectroscopy techniques. Isolated attosecond pulses, especially, will significantly advance the study of electron dynamics. However,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Yaozong Xiao , Tiandao Chen , Bo Liu , Zhiyuan Huang , Meng Pang , Yuxin Leng , Chao Feng

Attosecond x-ray pulses play a crucial role in the study of ultrafast phenomena occurring within inner and valence electrons. Especially isolated attosecond pulses with high photon energy and high peak power are of great significance in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Hao Sun , Xiaofan Wang , Li Zeng , Weiqing Zhang

The shape of a few-cycle terahertz (THz) laser pulse can be optimized to provide control over conduction band populations in graphene. To demonstrate this control in a theoretical way, a spectral parametrization of the driving pulse using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Denis Gagnon , Joey Dumont , François Fillion-Gourdeau , Steve MacLean

We report on a waveguide engineering technique that enables the generation of a bandwidth up to 1 THz and record ultra-short pulse length of 2.5 ps in injection seeded terahertz quantum cascade lasers. The reported technique is able to…

Intense attosecond magnetic field pulses are predicted to be produced by intense few cycle circularly polarized UV pulses. Numerical solutions of the time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for H$_2^+$ are used to study the dynamical…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-24 Kai-Jun Yuan , Andre D. Bandrauk

Numerical simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate the generation of axially polarized electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that radiate away energy with a characteristic frequency determined by the plasma frequency, in the THz range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Kathryn A. Wolfinger , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

Coherent control over electron dynamics in atoms and molecules using high-intensity circularly-polarized laser pulses gives rise to current loops, resulting in the emission of magnetic fields. We propose and demonstrate with ab-initio…

The interaction between relativistic electron beams and intense laser fields has been extensively studied for generating high-energy radiation. However, achieving coherent radiation from such interactions needs to precisely control the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 H. Peng , T. W. Huang , C. N. Wu , K. Jiang , R. Li , C. Riconda , S. Weber , C. T. Zhou

Isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) generated by few-cycle femtosecond lasers are essential for capturing ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids. Nonetheless, the advancement of attosecond science critically depends on achieving…

Doppler harmonic generation of a high-power laser on a relativistic plasma mirror is a promising path to produce bright attosecond light bursts. Yet, a major challenge has been to find a way to generate isolated attosecond pulses, better…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 H. Kallala , F. Quéré , H. Vincenti

Advanced experiments using THz pump and X-ray probe pulses at modern free-electron lasers (FELs) like the European X-ray FEL require a frequency-tunable, high-power, narrow-band THz source maintaining the repetition rate and pulse structure…

We theoretically investigate the generation of intense keV attosecond pulses in an orthogonally polarized multicycle midinfrared two-color laser field. It is demonstrated that multiple continuum-like humps, which have a spectral width of…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Guicun Li , Yinghui Zheng , Zhinan Zeng , Ruxin Li

The use of laser pulse sequences to drive the cascaded difference frequency generation of high energy, high peak-power and multi-cycle terahertz pulses in cryogenically cooled periodically poled lithium niobate is proposed. Detailed…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-27 Koustuban Ravi , Damian N. Schimpf , Franz X. Kärtner