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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

Attosecond X-ray pulses are a critical tool for tracking ultrafast electron dynamics in condensed matter, molecular systems, and strongly correlated materials. Recent breakthroughs have pushed X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) into the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Bingyang Yan , Chenzhi Xu , Si Chen , Duan Gu , Ye Chen , Jiawei Yan , Haixiao Deng

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

The bottleneck for an attosecond science experiment is concluded to be the lack of a high-peak-power isolated attosecond pulse source. Therefore, currently, generating an intense attosecond pulse would be one of the highest priority goals.…

Attosecond science is based on steering of electrons with the electric field of well-controlled femtosecond laser pulses. It has led to, for example, the generation of XUV light pulses with a duration in the sub-100-attosecond regime, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 Michael Krüger , Markus Schenk , Peter Hommelhoff

This study demonstrates the potential to generate a soft X-ray single-cycle attosecond pulse using a single-cycle mid-infrared pulse from the advanced dual-chirped optical parametric amplification. Supercontinuum high harmonic (HH) spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-07 Kaito Nishimiya , Feng Wang , Pengfei Lan , Eiji J. Takahashi

Ultrafast laser systems, those with a pulse duration on the order of picoseconds or less, have enabled advancements in a wide variety of fields. Of particular interest to this work, these laser systems are the key component to many High…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Sean M Buczek , Gilbert W Collins , Alexey Arefiev , Mario J Manuel

In attosecond streaking, an electron is released by a short xuv pulse into a strong near infrared laser field. When the laser coupling between two states in the target is weak relative to the detuning, the streaking technique, which allows…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jan Conrad Baggesen , Lars Bojer Madsen

For several decades, the interest of the scientific community in aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton-Boron fusion has grown because of potential applications in different fields. Recently, many scientific teams in the world have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 X. Ribeyre , R. Capdessus , E. d'Humières , J. Wheeler , G. Mourou

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

The basic properties of atoms, molecules and solids are governed by electron dynamics which take place on extremely short time scales. To measure and control these dynamics therefore requires ultrafast sources of radiation combined with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 J. Mauritsson , P. Johnsson , E. Gustafsson , M. Swoboda , T. Ruchon , A. LHuillier , K. J. Schafer

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) provides a broad spectral bandwidth for synthesizing attosecond pulses. However, in the current HHG schemes, only part of the harmonics can be phase-locked, which limits the ability to achieve shorter…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-18 ShiJun Wang , XuanYang Lai , XiaoJun Liu

The interaction of an ultra-intense laser with matter is an efficient source of high-energy particles, with efforts directed towards narrowing the divergence and simultaneously increasing the brightness. In this paper we report on emission…

We show that light-pulse atom interferometry with atomic point sources and spatially resolved detection enables multi-axis (two rotation, one acceleration) precision inertial sensing at long interrogation times. Using this method, we…

Laser-accelerated electron bunches and the secondary radiation sources they produce exhibit unique temporal resolution for probing ultrafast physical processes due to their ultrashort pulse duration. The inherently short temporal profile of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Yang He , Mamat Ali Bake , Cheng-Qi Zhang , Bai-Song Xie

At the core of attosecond science lies the ability to generate laser pulses of sub-femtosecond duration. In tabletop devices the process relies on high-harmonic generation, where a major challenge is to obtain high yields and high cutoff…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 J. Solanpää , J. A. Budagosky , N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski , A. Castro , A. Rubio , E. Räsänen

We propose a scheme for generation of single 100 GW 300-as pulse in the X-ray free electron laser with the use of a few cycles optical pulse from Ti:sapphire laser system. Femtosecond optical pulse interacts with the electron beam in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy has thus far been lacking the capability to simultaneously characterize the intense laser pulses at work within a time-resolved quantum-dynamics experiment. However, precise knowledge of these…

Bright ultrashort X-ray pulses allow scientists to observe ultrafast motion of atoms and molecules. Coherent light sources, such as the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), enable remarkable discoveries in cell biology, protein…

High harmonic emissions from crystalline solids contain rich information on the dynamics of electrons driven by intense infrared laser fields and have been intensively studied owing to their potential use as a probe of microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-01 K. Uchida , K. Tanaka