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Dielectric laser acceleration is a versatile scheme to accelerate and control electrons with the help of femtosecond laser pulses in nanophotonic structures. We demonstrate here the generation of a train of electron pulses with individual…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Norbert Schönenberger , Anna Mittelbach , Peyman Yousefi , Uwe Niedermayer , Peter Hommelhoff

Half-cycle picosecond pulses have been produced from thin photo-conductors, when applying an electric field across the surface and switching on conduction by a short laser pulse. Then the transverse current in the wafer plane emits…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. -C. Wu , J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

We propose a general technique to retrieve the information of dipole-forbidden resonances in the autoionizing region. In the simulation, a helium atom is pumped by an isolated attosecond pulse in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) combined with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wei-Chun Chu , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin

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

A new method for efficiently generating an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse is proposed. It is shown that the ultraviolet (UV) attosecond pulse can be utilized as a robust tool to control the dynamics of electron wave packets (EWPs).…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao , Xinlin Wang

Pulse trains emitted from dual-comb systems are designed to have low relative timing jitter, making them useful for many optical measurement techniques such as optical ranging and spectroscopy. However, the characterization of low-jitter…

On the basis of real-time ab initio calculations, we study the non-perturbative interaction of two-color laser pulses with MgO crystal in the strong field regime to generate isolated attosecond pulse from high-harmonic emissions from MgO…

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 waveforms of attosecond pulses produced by high-harmonic generation carry information on the electronic structure and dynamics in atomic and molecular systems. Current methods for the temporal characterization of such pulses have…

Free-electron lasers (FELs) generate the brightest coherent X-ray pulses available, enabling atomic-resolution and femtosecond-timescale studies across physics, chemistry, and biology. Realising their full potential at extreme peak powers…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Çağrı Erciyes , Christoph H. Keitel , Matteo Tamburini

The generation of the shortest isolated attosecond pulses requires both broad spectral bandwidth and control of the spectral phase. Rapid progress has been made in both aspects, leading to the generation of the world-record-shortest 67 as…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-06 Michael Chini , Kun Zhao , Zenghu Chang

We demonstrate submicrometer focusing of isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) region using a custom ellipsoidal mirror. The obtained focal spot sizes were verified using knife-edge measurements with a sharp…

Shaping electron beams with the cycles of light provides femtosecond and attosecond time resolution in electron microscopy and enables fundamental quantum-coherent measurements. However, efficient light-electron control requires a prolonged…

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

XUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) produce short wavelength pulses with high intensity, ultrashort duration, well-defined polarization and transverse coherence, and have been utilised for many experiments previously possible at long…

We propose utilizing a polarization-tailored high-power laser pulse to extract and accelerate electrons from the edge of a solid foil target to produce isolated attosecond electron bunches. The laser pulse consists of two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Ke Hu , Longqing Yi

In this paper, we present the analytical theory of attosecond pulse formation via optical modulation of an active medium of the hydrogen-like C5+ plasma-based X-ray laser at 3.4 nm wavelength in the "water window" range, taking into account…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 V. A. Antonov , I. R. Khairulin , Olga Kocharovskaya

Ultrashort electron pulses are crucial for time-resolved electron diffraction and microscopy of fundamental light-matter interaction. In this work, we study experimentally and theoretically the generation and characterization of attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-21 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Baum

We present an absolute distance measurement interferometer based on a two wavelength interferometer and a variable synthetic wavelength technique. The wavelength scanning range was 12 GHz, realized with a phase accuracy of 1.0 m{\lambda} by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-25 Yoshiyuki Kuramoto , Hiroshi Okuda

We present a novel, highly versatile, and self-referenced arrival time monitor for measuring the femtosecond time delay between a hard X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser and an optical laser pulse, measured directly on the same sample…