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 …

Non-collinear generation of angularly isolated circularly polarized high harmonics

DD Hickstein, FJ Dollar, P Grychtol, JL Ellis, R Knut… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We generate angularly isolated beams of circularly polarized extreme ultraviolet light
through the first implementation of non-collinear high harmonic generation with circularly …

Multichromatic polarization-controlled pulse sequences for coherent control of multiphoton ionization

K Eickhoff, L Englert, T Bayer, M Wollenhaupt - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we report on recent progress in the generation and application of
multichromatic polarization-tailored pulse sequences for the coherent control of multiphoton …

Helicity-selective enhancement and polarization control of attosecond high harmonic waveforms driven by bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields

KM Dorney, JL Ellis, C Hernández-García… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
High harmonics driven by two-color counterrotating circularly polarized laser fields are a
unique source of bright, circularly polarized, extreme ultraviolet, and soft x-ray beams, where …

Electron spin polarization in strong-field ionization of xenon atoms

A Hartung, F Morales, M Kunitski, K Henrichs… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
As a fundamental property of the electron, the spin plays a decisive role in the electronic
structure of matter, from solids to molecules and atoms, for example, by causing magnetism …

Controlling nonsequential double ionization in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields

CA Mancuso, KM Dorney, DD Hickstein… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Atoms undergoing strong-field ionization in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser
fields exhibit unique two-dimensional photoelectron trajectories and can emit bright …

Tomographic reconstruction of circularly polarized high-harmonic fields: 3D attosecond metrology

C Chen, Z Tao, C Hernández-García, P Matyba… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Bright, circularly polarized, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray high-harmonic beams
can now be produced using counter-rotating circularly polarized driving laser fields …

Improved strong-field approximation and quantum-orbit theory: Application to ionization by a bicircular laser field

DB Milošević, W Becker - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
A theory of above-threshold ionization of atoms by a strong laser field is formulated. Two
versions of the strong-field approximation (SFA) are considered, the direct SFA and the …

Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields

CA Mancuso, DD Hickstein, KM Dorney, JL Ellis… - Physical review A, 2016 - APS
High-harmonic generation driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly polarized laser
fields was recently demonstrated experimentally as a breakthrough source of bright …

Nonsequential double ionization by counterrotating circularly polarized two-color laser fields

S Eckart, M Richter, M Kunitski, A Hartung, J Rist… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report on nonsequential double ionization of Ar by a laser pulse consisting of two
counterrotating circularly polarized fields (390 and 780 nm). The double-ionization …