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X-ray sources are developing rapidly and their coherent output is growing extremely rapidly. The increased coherent flux from modern X-ray sources is being matched with an associated rapid development in experimental methods. This article…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-09 Keith A Nugent

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

Light generation through optical harmonics plays a pivotal role in photonics, driving innovations in coherent light sources, biological imaging, and spectroscopy. Traditional methods for tuning optical harmonics, including electrostatic…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 George Trivizas , Matthew D. Feinstein , Euclides Almeida

It is demonstrated by single-atom simulations that X-ray signals in the 3.4 to 4 keV region from an 8 micron laser driven high harmonic generation can be increased by more than two orders of magnitude when a single-cycle pulse centered at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Zenghu Chang

High coherence visible and near-visible laser sources are centrally important to the operation of advanced position/navigation/timing systems as well as classical/quantum sensing systems. However, the complexity and size of these bench-top…

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has recently led to a revolution in resolving power and tissue contrast in biomedical imaging, microscopy and materials science. The necessary high spatial coherence is currently provided by either large-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 J. Wenz , S. Schleede , K. Khrennikov , M. Bech , P. Thibault , M. Heigoldt , F. Pfeiffer , S. Karsch

Bright, coherent soft X-ray (SXR) radiation is essential to a variety of applications in fundamental research and life sciences. So far, high photon flux in this spectral region can only be delivered by synchrotrons, free electron lasers or…

Recent progresses in femtosecond ytterbium-doped fiber laser technology areopening new perspectives in strong field physics and attosecond science. Highorder harmonic generation from these systems is particularly interesting because it…

High-harmonic generation is a light up-conversion process occurring in a strong laser field, leading to coherent bursts of extreme ultrashort broadband radiation [1]. As a new perspective, we propose that ultrafast strong-field electronic…

We demonstrate highly efficient generation of coherent 420nm light via up-conversion of near-infrared lasers in a hot rubidium vapor cell. By optimizing pump polarizations and frequencies we achieve a single-pass conversion efficiency of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-08-02 A. Vernier , S. Franke-Arnold , E. Riis , A. S. Arnold

High harmonic generation is a convenient way to obtain extreme ultraviolet light from table-top laser systems and the experimental tools to exploit this simple and powerful light source for time-resolved spectroscopy are being developed by…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-12-20 Jakob Grilj , Emily Sistrunk , Markus Koch , Markus Gühr

In our earlier work on harmonic generation with complex light [Nature Communications 15, 6878 (2024)], we demonstrated how the harmonic spectrum of a complex laser beam in a nonlinear medium can be obtained through the judicious application…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Raoul Trines , Holger Schmitz , Martin King , Paul McKenna , Robert Bingham

Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing $\gamma$-rays. This is what linear Compton scattering taught us. Ultra-intense lasers offer nowadays…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Sebastian Meuren , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

A phase-controlled ultralow-threshold phonon laser is proposed by using tunable optical amplifiers in coupled-cavity-optomechanical system. Giant enhancement of coherent photon-phonon interactions is achieved by engineering the strengths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Yan-Lei Zhang , Chang-Ling Zou , Chuan-Sheng Yang , Hui Jing , Chun-Hua Dong , Guang-Can Guo , Xu-Bo Zou

We demonstrate a versatile technique for generating continuously wavelength-tunable laser waveforms, with mJ pulse energies and ultrashort pulse durations down to few-cycle in the ultraviolet C and visible spectral ranges. Using the…

In a wide range of quantum technology applications, ranging from atomic clocks to the creation of ultracold or quantum degenerate samples for atom interferometry, optimal laser sources are critical. In particular, two phase-locked laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Nicola Agnew , David Lowit , Aidan S. Arnold

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is used as a source for various imaging applications in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range. It offers spatially coherent radiation and unique elemental contrast with the potential for attosecond time…

Active energy compression scheme is presently being investigated for future laser-plasma accelerators. This method enables generating laser-plasma accelerator electron beams with a small, $\sim 10^{-5}$, relative slice energy spread. When…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is widely used for up-conversion of amplified (near) infrared ultrafast laser pulses to short wavelengths. We demonstrate that Ramsey-comb spectroscopy, based on two such pulses derived from a frequency-comb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 L. S. Dreissen , C. Roth , E. L. Gründeman , J. J. Krauth , M. Favier , K. S. E. Eikema

Highly coherent and powerful light sources capable of generating soft x-ray frequency combs are essential for high precision measurements and rigorous tests of fundamental physics. In this work, we derive the analytical conditions required…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-18 Michael J. Quin , Antonino Di Piazza , Matteo Tamburini