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Tunable attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy is an ideal tool for studying and manipulating autoionization dynamics in the continuum. We investigate near-resonant two-photon couplings between the bright 3s^-1 4p and dark 3s^-1 4f…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 S. Yanez-Pagans , C. Cariker , M. Shaikh , L. Argenti , A. Sandhu

This review charts the emerging paradigm of intelligent structured light for high-field laser-matter interactions, where the precise spatiotemporal and vectorial control of light is a critical degree of freedom. We outline a transformative…

A new method to generate short wavelength Free Electron Laser output with modulated polarisation at attosecond timescales is presented. Simulations demonstrate polarisation switching timescales that are four orders of magnitude faster than…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 J. Morgan , B. W. J. McNeil

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in the relativistic regime is employed to obtain zeptosecond pulses of $\gamma$-rays. The harmonics are generated from atomic systems in counterpropagating strong attosecond laser pulse trains of linear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-07-20 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Attosecond x-ray pulses play a crucial role in the study of ultrafast phenomena occurring within inner and valence electrons. To achieve attosecond time-resolution studies and gain control over electronic wavefunctions, it is crucial to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Hao Sun , Xiaofan Wang , Weiqing Zhang

Probing coherent quantum dynamics in light-matter interactions at the microscopic level requires high-repetition-rate isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in pump-probe experiments. To date, the generation of IAPs has been mainly limited to…

The mutual angle formed by the non-collinear polarization axes of two laser pulses is used to control two-photon XUV+IR ionization of noble gas atoms in the process of reconstruction of attosecond bursts by beating of two-photon transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Anatoli S. Kheifets , Zhongtao Xu

In this work we demonstrate the generation of two intense, ultrafast laser pulses that allow a controlled interferometric measurement of higher harmonic generation pulses with 12.8 attoseconds in resolution (half the atomic unit of time)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jan Troß , Georgios Kolliopoulos , Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

We describe optimized coherent control methods for two-photon transitions in atoms of a ladder-type three-state energy configuration. Our approach is based on the spatial coherent control scheme which utilizes counter-propagating ultrashort…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Woojun Lee , Hyosub Kim , Kyungtae Kim , Jaewook Ahn

We examine the attosecond electron recollision dissociation of D2+ recently demonstrated experimentally [H. Niikura et al., Nature (London) 421, 826 (2003)] from a coherent control perspective. In this process, a strong laser field incident…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Spanner , Paul Brumer

Leveraging coherent light-matter interaction in solids is a promising new direction towards control and functionalization of quantum materials, to potentially realize regimes inaccessible in equilibrium and stabilize new or useful states of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Adithya Sriram , Martin Claassen

Controlled interaction of laser light with electron beams is fundamental for ultrafast electron microscopy and electron-based quantum optics, yet their direct coupling is forbidden in free space. Here we use longitudinally polarized light…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 J. Kuttruff , L. Möhrle , L. Ciorciaro , L. Schmidt-Mende , P. Baum

At the fundamental level, full description of light-matter interaction requires quantum treatment of both matter and light. However, for standard light sources generating intense laser pulses carrying quadrillions of photons in a coherent…

Light-phase-sensitive techniques, such as coherent multidimensional spectroscopy, are well-established in a broad spectral range, already spanning from radio-frequencies in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to visible and ultraviolet…

The two stage electron acceleration model [arXiv: 1512.02411 and arXiv: 1512.07546] is extended to the study of laser magnetized-plasmas interactions at relativistic intensities and in the presence of large-scale preformed plasmas. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 D. Wu , S. I. Krasheninnikov , S. X. Luan , W. Yu

Using extreme-ultraviolet attosecond-pulse-trains, we investigate the photoionization dynamics of a Helium atom in the presence of moderately-strong (~10^12 W/cm^2) femtosecond laser pulses. The electronic structure of a laser-dressed atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Niranjan Shivaram , Henry Timmers , Xiao-Min Tong , Arvinder S. Sandhu

We investigate the quantum dynamics of fermionic particles interacting with a laser field in a gaseous medium, in the regime of inelastic diffraction scattering on the phase lattice of a slowed travelling wave, below the critical field of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 H. K. Avetissian , G. F. Mkrtchian

We generate high-order harmonics in gaseous medium with tunable photon energy using time domain interferometry of double pulses in a non-collinear generation geometry. The method is based on the fact that the generated harmonics inherit…

The evolution of electron wavepackets determines the course of many physical and chemical phenomena and attosecond spectroscopy aims to measure and control such dynamics in real-time. Here, we investigate radial electron wavepacket motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Niranjan Shivaram , Xiao-Min Tong , Henry Timmers , Arvinder Sandhu