Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach

C Giannetti, M Capone, D Fausti, M Fabrizio… - Advances in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

Ultrafast supercontinuum generation in bulk condensed media (Invited Review)

A Dubietis, G Tamošauskas, R Šuminas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Nonlinear propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in bulk transparent media leads
to a specific propagation regime, termed femtosecond filamentation, which in turn produces …

Ultrafast changes in lattice symmetry probed by coherent phonons

S Wall, D Wegkamp, L Foglia, K Appavoo, J Nag… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The electronic and structural properties of a material are strongly determined by its
symmetry. Changing the symmetry via a photoinduced phase transition offers new ways to …

Ultrafast dynamics during the photoinduced phase transition in VO2

D Wegkamp, J Stähler - Progress in Surface Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The phase transition of VO 2 from a monoclinic insulator to a rutile metal, which occurs
thermally at TC= 340 K, can also be driven by strong photoexcitation. The ultrafast dynamics …

Tracking the evolution of electronic and structural properties of VO during the ultrafast photoinduced insulator-metal transition

S Wall, L Foglia, D Wegkamp, K Appavoo, J Nag… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We present a detailed study of the photoinduced insulator-metal transition in VO 2 with
broadband time-resolved reflection spectroscopy. This allows us to separate the response of …

Optical waveform synthesis and its applications

G Cirmi, RE Mainz, MA Silva‐Toledo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The quest for ever‐shorter optical pulses has been ongoing for over half a century. Although
few‐cycle pulses have been generated for nearly 40 years, pulse lengths below the single …

Infrared extension of femtosecond supercontinuum generated by filamentation in solid-state media

V Jukna, J Galinis, G Tamosauskas, D Majus… - Applied Physics B, 2014 - Springer
We carried out experimental and numerical study of the ultrafast supercontinuum generation
by filamentation of 120 fs, 800 nm laser pulses in sapphire under variable focusing …

[HTML][HTML] Broadband femtosecond spectroscopic ellipsometry

S Richter, M Rebarz, O Herrfurth, S Espinoza… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present a setup for time-resolved spectroscopic ellipsometry in a pump–probe scheme
using femtosecond laser pulses. As a probe, the system deploys supercontinuum white light …

Characterizing ultrashort pulses with photon energies above 1.12 eV based on transient absorption in silicon thin films

M Kumar, S Mokhtari, T Guay, A Leblanc… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Frequency-resolved optical switching (FROSt) is a phase-matching-free characterization
technique for ultrashort pulses based on transient absorption in semiconductors. So far, this …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing the competing contributions of charge carriers, excitons, and defects to the non-equilibrium optical properties of ZnO

L Foglia, S Vempati, B Tanda Bonkano, L Gierster… - Structural …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Due to its wide band gap and high carrier mobility, ZnO is, among other transparent
conductive oxides, an attractive material for light-harvesting and optoelectronic applications …