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 …

Strong-field physics with mid-IR fields

B Wolter, MG Pullen, M Baudisch, M Sclafani… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Strong-field physics is currently experiencing a shift towards the use of mid-IR driving
wavelengths. This is because they permit conducting experiments unambiguously in the …

Imaging an aligned polyatomic molecule with laser-induced electron diffraction

MG Pullen, B Wolter, AT Le, M Baudisch… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Laser-induced electron diffraction is an evolving tabletop method that aims to image ultrafast
structural changes in gas-phase polyatomic molecules with sub-Ångström spatial and …

Spatiotemporal isolation of attosecond soft X-ray pulses in the water window

F Silva, SM Teichmann, SL Cousin, M Hemmer… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Attosecond pulses at photon energies that cover the principal absorption edges of the
building blocks of materials are a prerequisite for time-resolved probing of the triggering …

High-flux table-top soft x-ray source driven by sub-2-cycle, CEP stable, 1.85-μm 1-kHz pulses for carbon K-edge spectroscopy

SL Cousin, F Silva, S Teichmann, M Hemmer… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first table-top high-flux source of coherent soft x-ray radiation up to 400 eV,
operating at 1 kHz. This source covers the carbon K-edge with a beam brilliance of …

Recent progress of below-threshold harmonic generation

WH Xiong, LY Peng, Q Gong - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The harmonics generated from the interaction of a strong laser field with atoms and
molecules in the gas phase can be applied as coherent light sources and detecting …

Attosecond streaking in the water window: A new regime of attosecond pulse characterization

SL Cousin, N Di Palo, B Buades, SM Teichmann… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
We report on the first streaking measurement of water-window attosecond pulses generated
via high-harmonic generation, driven by sub-2-cycle, carrier-to-envelope-phase-stable …

Improved quantum magnetometry beyond the standard quantum limit

JB Brask, R Chaves, J Kołodyński - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Under ideal conditions, quantum metrology promises a precision gain over classical
techniques scaling quadratically with the number of probe particles. At the same time, no-go …

Realizing attosecond core-level X-ray spectroscopy for the investigation of condensed matter systems

AM Summers, S Severino, M Reduzzi… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Unraveling the exact nature of nonequilibrium and correlated interactions is paramount for
continued progress in many areas of condensed matter science. Such insight is a …

[HTML][HTML] Attosecond state-resolved carrier motion in quantum materials probed by soft x-ray XANES

B Buades, A Picón, E Berger, I León, N Di Palo… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Recent developments in attosecond technology led to table-top x-ray spectroscopy in the
soft x-ray range, thus uniting the element-and state-specificity of core-level x-ray absorption …