Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental<? format?> quantum systems

A Di Piazza, C Müller, KZ Hatsagortsyan… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules,
and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological …

The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation

T Popmintchev, MC Chen, P Arpin, MM Murnane… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The frequency doubling of laser light was one of the first new phenomena observed
following the invention of the laser over 50 years ago. Since then, the quest to extend …

Streaking of 43-attosecond soft-X-ray pulses generated by a passively CEP-stable mid-infrared driver

T Gaumnitz, A Jain, Y Pertot, M Huppert, I Jordan… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Attosecond metrology has so far largely remained limited to titanium: sapphire lasers
combined with an active stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP). These sources …

Time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy with a water window high-harmonic source

Y Pertot, C Schmidt, M Matthews, A Chauvet… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy (TR-XAS) has so far practically been limited to
large-scale facilities, to subpicosecond temporal resolution, and to the condensed phase …

Bright coherent ultrahigh harmonics in the keV x-ray regime from mid-infrared femtosecond lasers

T Popmintchev, MC Chen, D Popmintchev, P Arpin… - science, 2012 - science.org
High-harmonic generation (HHG) traditionally combines~ 100 near-infrared laser photons to
generate bright, phase-matched, extreme ultraviolet beams when the emission from many …

Probing single-photon ionization on the attosecond time scale

K Klünder, JM Dahlström, M Gisselbrecht, T Fordell… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We study photoionization of argon atoms excited by attosecond pulses using an
interferometric measurement technique. We measure the difference in time delays between …

0.5-keV Soft X-ray attosecond continua

SM Teichmann, F Silva, SL Cousin, M Hemmer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Attosecond light pulses in the extreme ultraviolet have drawn a great deal of attention due to
their ability to interrogate electronic dynamics in real time. Nevertheless, to follow charge …

Modeling of the spectroscopy of core electrons with density functional theory

NA Besley - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of X‐ray light sources with increased resolution and intensity has provided a
foundation for increasingly sophisticated experimental studies exploiting the spectroscopy of …

Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

T Fan, P Grychtol, R Knut… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
We demonstrate, to our knowledge, the first bright circularly polarized high-harmonic beams
in the soft X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and use them to implement X-ray …

High-flux soft x-ray harmonic generation from ionization-shaped few-cycle laser pulses

AS Johnson, DR Austin, DA Wood, C Brahms… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Laser-driven high-harmonic generation provides the only demonstrated route to generating
stable, tabletop attosecond x-ray pulses but has low flux compared to other x-ray …