Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

Sub-7-femtosecond conical-intersection dynamics probed at the carbon K-edge

KS Zinchenko, F Ardana-Lamas, I Seidu, SP Neville… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Conical intersections allow electronically excited molecules to return to their electronic
ground state. Here, we observe the fastest electronic relaxation dynamics measured to date …

Femtosecond proton transfer in urea solutions probed by X-ray spectroscopy

Z Yin, YP Chang, T Balčiūnas, Y Shakya, A Djorović… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Proton transfer is one of the most fundamental events in aqueous-phase chemistry and an
emblematic case of coupled ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics,. Disentangling …

Attosecond technology (ies) and science

J Biegert, F Calegari, N Dudovich… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 2001 and the first demonstrations of the feasibility of generating and measuring
attosecond light pulses, attosecond science has developed into a very active and quickly …

Water window soft x-ray source enabled by a 25 W few-cycle 2.2 µm OPCPA at 100 kHz

J Pupeikis, PA Chevreuil, N Bigler, L Gallmann… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Coherent soft x-ray (SXR) sources enable fundamental studies in the important water
window spectral region. Until now, such sources have been limited to repetition rates of 1 …

Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

Electronic state population dynamics upon ultrafast strong field ionization and fragmentation of molecular nitrogen

C Kleine, MO Winghart, ZY Zhang, M Richter… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Air lasing from single ionized N 2+ molecules induced by laser filamentation in air has been
intensively investigated and the mechanisms responsible for lasing are currently highly …

Intense infrared lasers for strong-field science

Z Chang, L Fang, V Fedorov, C Geiger… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

Attosecond core-level absorption spectroscopy reveals the electronic and nuclear dynamics of molecular ring opening

S Severino, KM Ziems, M Reduzzi, A Summers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We show that attosecond core-level spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating
molecular dynamics due to its combined attosecond temporal resolution and the broad …