Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub‐cycle optical waveforms

C Manzoni, OD Mücke, G Cirmi, S Fang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The generation of sub‐optical‐cycle, carrier–envelope phase‐stable light pulses is one of
the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub‐cycle pulse generation are …

Attosecond electron dynamics

MF Kling, MJJ Vrakking - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We describe the recent emergence of attosecond science, assessing the present state of the
art and discussing several recent examples where attosecond electron dynamics has been …

Synthesized light transients

A Wirth, MT Hassan, I Grguraš, J Gagnon, A Moulet… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Manipulation of electron dynamics calls for electromagnetic forces that can be confined to
and controlled over sub-femtosecond time intervals. Tailored transients of light fields can …

Light-matter interactions within the Ehrenfest–Maxwell–Pauli–Kohn–Sham framework: fundamentals, implementation, and nano-optical applications

R Jestädt, M Ruggenthaler, MJT Oliveira… - Advances in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years significant experimental advances in nano-scale fabrication techniques and
in available light sources have opened the possibility to study a vast set of novel light-matter …

Supercontinuum generation in the vacuum ultraviolet through dispersive-wave and soliton-plasma interaction in a noble-gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

A Ermolov, KF Mak, MH Frosz, JC Travers, PSJ Russell - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We report on the generation of a three-octave-wide supercontinuum extending from the
vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to the near infrared, spanning at least 113–1000 nm (ie, 11− 1.2 …

Tracing and controlling electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses

LY Peng, WC Jiang, JW Geng, WH Xiong, Q Gong - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In this review, we will focus on the theoretical aspects in observing and controlling the
electronic dynamics in few-electron atoms and molecules by attosecond pulses in different …

Invited article: attosecond photonics: synthesis and control of light transients

MT Hassan, A Wirth, I Grguraš, A Moulet… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Ultimate control over light entails the capability of crafting its field waveform. Here, we detail
the technological advances that have recently permitted the synthesis of light transients …

Strong field ionization rates simulated with time-dependent configuration interaction and an absorbing potential

P Krause, JA Sonk, HB Schlegel - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Ionization rates of molecules have been modeled with time-dependent configuration
interaction simulations using atom centered basis sets and a complex absorbing potential …

Probing time-dependent molecular dipoles on the attosecond time scale

C Neidel, J Klei, CH Yang, A Rouzée, MJJ Vrakking… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
Photoinduced molecular processes start with the interaction of the instantaneous electric
field of the incident light with the electronic degrees of freedom. This early attosecond …

Computation of high-harmonic generation spectra of H2 and N2 in intense laser pulses using quantum chemistry methods and time-dependent density functional …

E Luppi, M Head-Gordon - Molecular Physics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we present a study of H2 and N2 electron dynamics in intense laser fields with a
specific focus on high-harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy. We performed this study …