Over the past decade, breakthroughs in the generation and control of ultrafast high-field
terahertz (THz) radiation have led to new spectroscopic methodologies for the study of light …

Shock-induced detonation is a key property of energetic materials (EM) that remains
empirically understood. One proposed mechanism of shock-initiation in EM is “phonon up …

The THz frequency regime holds the possibility of a new frontier in advanced accelerator
research. In bridging the gap between optical and RF technology, THz-based accelerating …

In recent years, a broad spectrum of time-resolving techniques for surface analysis has
emerged. Often utilising a combination of optical and electron pulses, methods like time …

Over the last 20 years, enormous effort has been invested in the development and
construction of free-electron laser (FEL) sources that emit light pulses tunable from the …

Charge carriers in graphene mimic two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with linear
energy dispersion, resulting in unique optical and electronic properties. They exhibit high …

Advanced accelerators have great promise in reducing the size and cost of high energy
colliders as well as bringing high brightness x-ray sources to the laboratory tabletop scale …

The high conversion generation efficiency THz generation through optical rectification using
a tilted optical pulse front is described. A calculation method of tilted-pulse-front scheme has …

In this dissertation the development of a novel type of streak-camera enabling
multidimensional electron spectroscopy implying energy, angular as well as time resolution …