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We study the emission of femtosecond spin current pulses at Fe/Au interfaces. Using optical second harmonic generation we demonstrate the control of pulse shape and duration by varying the emitter thickness and show that it is determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alexey Melnikov , Liane Brandt , Niklas Liebing , Mirko Ribow , Ingrid Mertig , Georg Woltersdorf

A whole class of two-color experiments involves intense, short Terahertz radiation pulses. A fast detector that is sensitive and able to resolve both near-infrared and Terahertz pulses at the same time is highly desirable. Here we present…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-14 S. Preu , M. Mittendorff , S. Winnerl , H. Lu , A. C. Gossard , H. B. Weber

Terahertz (THz) technology enables multi-Tbps satellite communications, but conventional semiconductor detectors suffer from fundamental performance degradation above 1 THz due to the Drude limit of free electrons. Here, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Zhi Li

Relativistic wakes produced by intense laser or particle beams propagating through plasmas are being considered as accelerators for next generation of colliders and coherent light sources. Such wakes have been shown to accelerate electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 C. J. Zhang , J. F. Hua , Y. Wan , B. Guo , Y. P. Wu , C. -H. Pai , F. Li , H. -H. Chu , Y. Q. Gu , X. L. Xu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi , J. Wang , W. Lu

A model calculation is given for the energy relaxation of a non-equilibrium distribution of hot electrons prepared in a metallic sample that has been subjected to homogeneous photo-excitation by a femtosecond laser pulse. The model assumes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Navinder Singh

We use optical pump--THz probe spectroscopy at low temperatures to study the hot carrier response in thin Bi$_2$Se$_3$ films of several thicknesses, allowing us to separate the bulk from the surface transient response. We find that for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Valdés Aguilar , J. Qi , M. Brahlek , N. Bansal , A. Azad , J. Bowlan , S. Oh , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar , D. A. Yarotski

The detailed theoretical and numerical investigation of hybrid laser plasma RF accelerators, elucidating the mechanisms governing transverse beam dynamics, betatron polarization, and radiation reaction in ultra-relativistic electron bunches…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 A. A. Molavi Choobini , M. Shahmansouri

Traditional accelerators, while effective, suffer from extensive spatial and financial demands, necessitating the exploration of compact alternatives like PWFA, which significantly reduces the necessary accelerator length by utilizing the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Robin Hwang

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…

Ultrashort and ultracold electron bunches created by near-threshold femtosecond photoionization of a laser-cooled gas hold great promise for single-shot ultrafast diffraction experiments. In previous publications the transverse beam quality…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 J. G. H. Franssen , J. M. Kromwijk , E. J. D. Vredenbregt , O. J. Luiten

Recent studies in spintronics have highlighted ultrathin magnetic metallic multilayers as a novel and very promising class of broadband terahertz radiation sources. Such spintronic multilayers consist of ferromagnetic (FM) and non-magnetic…

We demonstrate THz generation using the tilted pulse front method in Lithium Niobate, driven at unprecedented high average power of more than 100 W and at 13.3 MHz repetition rate, provided by a compact amplifier-free modelocked thin-disk…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-20 Frank Meyer , Tim Vogel , Shahwar Ahmed , Clara J. Saraceno

Self-compression of femtosecond laser pulses and more than an order of magnitude increase of the peak intensity is found in a positive dispersion medium in low dispersion regime based on the (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger…

Optics · Physics 2007-08-09 I. G. Koprinkov , M. D. Todorov , M. E. Todorova , T. P. Todorov

High-repetition-rate sources of bright electron bunches have a wide range of applications. They can directly be employed as probes in electron-scattering setups, or serve as a backbone for the generation of radiation over a broad range of…

Femtosecond electron bunches with complex temporal structures play a crucial role in THz generation, free-electron lasers and plasma wakefield accelerators. The ultrashort electron pulse duration can be reconstructed from the coherent…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Q. Q. Su , J. F. Hua , Z. Nie , Y. Ma , S. Liu , Y. F. Zheng , C. -H. Pai , W. Lu

Femtosecond electron beams with complex modulation play a crucial role in applications such as X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) and plasma wakefield accelerators. However, diagnostics for the electron beam current profile still face…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zixiao Guo , Ke Feng , Zhiheng Lou , Guiyao Wang , Wentao Wang , Ruxin Li

We report on the generation of broadband, high-energy femtosecond pulses centered at 1.28 um by stimulated Raman scattering in pressurized hydrogen cell. Stimulated Raman scattering is performed by two chirped and delayed pulses originating…

The guiding and control of ultrahigh flux, femtosecond relativistic electron pulses through solid density matter is of great importance for many areas of high energy density science. Efforts so far include the use of magnetic fields…

The hallmark of superconductivity is the rigidity of the quantum-mechanical phase of electrons, responsible for superfluid behavior and Meissner effect. The strength of the phase stiffness is set by the Josephson coupling, which is strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-18 Francesco Gabriele , Mattia Udina , Lara Benfatto

We propose a framework for discrete scientific data compression based on the tensor-train (TT) decomposition. Our approach is tailored to handle unstructured output data from discrete element method (DEM) simulations, demonstrating its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Saibal De , Eduardo Corona , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Shravan Veerapaneni