Progress on table-top isolated attosecond light sources

K Midorikawa - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Research on isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) based on high-order harmonic generation
changed substantially around 2010. Before then, the Ti: sapphire laser was the de facto …

Advances in attosecond science

F Calegari, G Sansone, S Stagira… - Journal of Physics B …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Attosecond science offers formidable tools for the investigation of electronic processes at the
heart of important physical processes in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics. In the last …

Strong–laser–field physics, non–classical light states and quantum information science

U Bhattacharya, T Lamprou, AS Maxwell… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong–laser–field physics is a research direction that relies on the use of high-power lasers
and has led to fascinating achievements ranging from relativistic particle acceleration to …

Tunable, flexible, and efficient optimization of control pulses for practical qubits

S Machnes, E Assémat, D Tannor, FK Wilhelm - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Quantum computation places very stringent demands on gate fidelities, and experimental
implementations require both the controls and the resultant dynamics to conform to …

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 …

Waveforms for optimal sub-keV high-order harmonics with synthesized two-or three-colour laser fields

C **, G Wang, H Wei, AT Le, CD Lin - Nature Communications, 2014 - nature.com
High-order harmonics extending to the X-ray region generated in a gas medium by intense
lasers offer the potential for providing tabletop broadband light sources but so far are limited …

Optical waveform synthesis and its applications

G Cirmi, RE Mainz, MA Silva‐Toledo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The quest for ever‐shorter optical pulses has been ongoing for over half a century. Although
few‐cycle pulses have been generated for nearly 40 years, pulse lengths below the single …

Fully stabilized multi-TW optical waveform synthesizer: Toward gigawatt isolated attosecond pulses

B Xue, Y Tamaru, Y Fu, H Yuan, P Lan, OD Mücke… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
A stable 50-mJ three-channel optical waveform synthesizer is demonstrated and used to
reproducibly generate a high-order harmonic supercontinuum in the soft x-ray region. This …

[HTML][HTML] A custom-tailored multi-TW optical electric field for gigawatt soft-X-ray isolated attosecond pulses

B Xue, Y Tamaru, Y Fu, H Yuan, P Lan, OD Mücke… - Ultrafast …, 2021 - spj.science.org
Since the first isolated attosecond pulse was demonstrated through high-order harmonics
generation (HHG) in 2001, researchers' interest in the ultrashort time region has expanded …

Boosting terahertz generation in laser-field ionized gases using a sawtooth wave shape

PGA Martínez, I Babushkin, L Bergé, S Skupin… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Broadband ultrashort terahertz (THz) pulses can be produced using plasma generation in a
noble gas ionized by femtosecond two-color pulses. Here we demonstrate that, by using …