Ultrafast optical pulse shaping: A tutorial review

AM Weiner - Optics Communications, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents a tutorial on the field of femtosecond pulse shaping, a technology that
enables generation of nearly arbitrary, user defined, ultrafast optical waveforms, with control …

Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future

C Brif, R Chakrabarti, H Rabitz - New Journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

Femtosecond polarization shaping of free-electron laser pulses

G Perosa, J Wätzel, D Garzella, E Allaria… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the generation of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser (FEL) pulses
with time-dependent polarization. To achieve polarization modulation on a femtosecond …

Idealized four-wave mixing dynamics in a nonlinear Schrödinger equation fiber system

A Sheveleva, U Andral, B Kibler, P Colman, JM Dudley… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The observation of ideal four-wave mixing dynamics is notoriously difficult to implement
experimentally due to the generation of higher-order sidebands and optical loss, which limit …

Analytic optimization of near-field optical chirality enhancement

C Kramer, M Schäferling, T Weiss, H Giessen… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present an analytic derivation for the enhancement of local optical chirality in the near
field of plasmonic nanostructures by tuning the far-field polarization of external light. We …

Photoelectron angular distributions from strong-field coherent electronic excitation

M Wollenhaupt, M Krug, J Köhler, T Bayer… - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Photoelectron Angular Distributions (PADs) resulting from nonperturbative
excitation of potassium atoms using shaped femtosecond laser pulses are presented. We …

Applications of polarization-shaped femtosecond laser pulses

K Misawa - Advances in Physics: X, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This review article presents the generation and control of polarization-shaped femtosecond
laser pulses. Some applications of these pulses to coherent control are described, including …

Measuring the spatiotemporal electric field of ultrashort pulses with high spatial and spectral resolution

P Bowlan, P Gabolde, MA Coughlan, R Trebino… - JOSA B, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an experimentally simple and high-spectral-resolution version of spectral
interferometry (SEA TADPOLE) that can measure complicated pulses (in time) at video rates …

Control of quantum phenomena

C Brif, R Chakrabarti, H Rabitz - Advances in Chemical Physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Control of quantum phenomena Page 20 CONTROL OF QUANTUM PHENOMENA
CONSTANTIN BRIF, 1 RAJ CHAKRABARTI, 2 and HERSCHEL RABITZ1 1Department of …

Signal enhancement and background cancellation in collinear two-dimensional spectroscopies

W Xiong, MT Zanni - Optics letters, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We present a polarization method that significantly improves the signal-to-noise ratio in two-
dimensional (2D) spectra collected in a “pump-probe” phase-matching geometry by …