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Second harmonic generation (SHG), as one of the most significant \c{hi}(2) nonlinear optical processes, plays crucial roles in a broad variety of optical and photonic applications. Designing various delicate schemes to achieve highly…

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Autocorrelation measurement based on second-harmonic generation (SHG), the best-known technique for measuring the temporal duration of ultrashort pulses, could date back to the birth of ultrafast lasers. Here, we propose and experimentally…

Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (RIXS) is a well-established tool for probing excitations in a wide range of materials. The measured spectra strongly depend on the scattering geometry, via its influence on the polarization of the…

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The detection of electron motion and electronic wavepacket dynamics is one of the core goals of attosecond science. Recently, choosing the nitric oxide (NO) molecule as an example, we have introduced and demonstrated a new experimental…

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We describe the development of an ambient-temperature continuously-rotating half-wave plate (HWP) for study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the POLARBEAR-2 (PB2) experiment. Rapid polarization modulation suppresses…

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector designed to perform reliable measurements of the polarization for transient sources like Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. The instrument works based on the Compton Scattering principle…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging modality that utilizes positron-emitting isotopes, such as Ga-68 and F-18, for many diagnostic purposes. The positron annihilates with an electron from the surrounding area, creating…

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the soft x-ray range is an element-specific energy-loss spectroscopy used to probe the electronic and magnetic excitations in strongly correlated solids. In the recent years, RIXS has been…

We have tested the new experimental techniques in the M\"ossbauer spectroscopy with Synchrotron M\"ossbauer Source by using the polarization analysis of the reflected radiation. In particular we have shown that the dichroic components in…

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A fluid-based theoretical framework is developed to describe the nonlinear cascade linking primary BRS-driven plasma wave amplification, oscillating two-stream instability (OTSI), nonlinear current generation within a self-formed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei , A. A. Molavi Choobini

The polarization of x-rays plays an outstanding role in experimental techniques such as non-resonant magnetic x-ray scattering and resonant x-ray scattering of magnetic and multipolar order. Different instrumental methods applied to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-24 C. Detlefs , M. Sanchez del Rio , C. Mazzoli

State-of-the-art experiments employ strong ultrafast optical fields to study the nonlinear response of electrons in solids on an attosecond time-scale. Notably, a recent experiment retrieved a 3rd order nonlinear susceptibility by comparing…

Resonant (elastic) soft x-ray scattering (RSXS) offers a unique element, site, and valence specific probe to study spatial modulations of charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom in solids on the nanoscopic length scale. It cannot only…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-12 J. Fink , E. Schierle , E. Weschke , J. Geck

Statistical anisotropy in the nanohertz-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) is expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. By developing a frequentist statistical framework that intrinsically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Nihan Pol , Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph D. Romano

We present a comprehensive study of the reversal process of perpendicular magnetization in thin layers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor Ga1-xMnxAs. For this investigation we have purposely chosen Ga1-xMnxAs with a low Mn concentration (x…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 X. Liu , W. L. Lim , L. V. Titova , M. Dobrowolska , J. K. Furdyna , M. Kutrowski , T. Wojtowicz

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

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We investigate the use of harmonic analysis techniques to perform measurements of the angular power spectrum on mock pulsar timing data for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) with a dimensionless strain amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-19 Jonathan Nay , Kimberly K. Boddy , Tristan L. Smith , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The relationship between magnetic order and the second harmonic generation (SHG) effect is a fundamental area of study in condensed matter physics with significant practical implications. In order to gain a clearer understanding of this…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Rui-Chun Xiao , Ding-Fu Shao , Wei Gan , Huan-Wen Wang , Hui Han , Z. G. Sheng , Changjin Zhang , Hua Jiang , Hui Li

Pulsar timing arrays probe isotropic stochastic gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds in the nanohertz band but are insensitive to its parity-violating component. Motivated by recent progress in pulsar polarization arrays, we study the…

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