High-energy few-cycle pulses: post-compression techniques

T Nagy, P Simon, L Veisz - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources of high-energy few-cycle light
pulses. Currently two methods are capable of generating such pulses: post compression of …

Third-generation femtosecond technology

H Fattahi, HG Barros, M Gorjan, T Nubbemeyer… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye
lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced …

Light-wave dynamic control of magnetism

F Siegrist, JA Gessner, M Ossiander, C Denker… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The enigmatic interplay between electronic and magnetic phenomena observed in many
early experiments and outlined in Maxwell's equations propelled the development of …

Attosecond physics at the nanoscale

MF Ciappina, JA Pérez-Hernández… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

Attosecond correlation dynamics

M Ossiander, F Siegrist, V Shirvanyan, R Pazourek… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Photoemission of an electron is commonly treated as a one-particle phenomenon. With
attosecond streaking spectroscopy we observe the breakdown of this single active-electron …

Post-compression of femtosecond laser pulses using self-phase modulation: from kilowatts to petawatts in 40 years

EA Khazanov - Quantum Electronics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The pulse duration at the output of femtosecond lasers is usually close to the Fourier limit,
and can be shortened by increasing the spectral width. To this end, use is made of self …

Simulating coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of nonadiabatic molecular processes: From the infrared to the x-ray regime

M Kowalewski, BP Fingerhut, KE Dorfman… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Next generation driver for attosecond and laser-plasma physics

DE Rivas, A Borot, DE Cardenas, G Marcus, X Gu… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The observation and manipulation of electron dynamics in matter call for attosecond light
pulses, routinely available from high-order harmonic generation driven by few-femtosecond …

Compression of CEP-stable multi-mJ laser pulses down to 4 fs in long hollow fibers

F Böhle, M Kretschmar, A Jullien, M Kovacs… - Laser Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Carrier–envelope phase stable 4 fs near-IR pulses with 3 mJ energy were generated by
spectral broadening of circularly polarized 8 mJ pulses in a differentially pumped 2 m long …

High-power, 1-ps, all-Yb: YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier

H Fattahi, A Alismail, H Wang, J Brons, O Pronin… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report a 100 W, 20 mJ, 1-ps, all-Yb: YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier seeded by a
microjoule-level Yb: YAG thin-disk Kerr-lens mode-locked oscillator. The regenerative …