Macroscopic aspects of attosecond pulse generation

MB Gaarde, JL Tate, KJ Schafer - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Attosecond pulses are generated by a macroscopic number of ionizing atoms interacting
with a focused laser pulse, via the process of high harmonic generation. The physics of their …

Attosecond nonlinear optics using gigawatt-scale isolated attosecond pulses

EJ Takahashi, P Lan, OD Mücke, Y Nabekawa… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
High-energy isolated attosecond pulses required for the most intriguing nonlinear
attosecond experiments as well as for attosecond-pump/attosecond-probe spectroscopy are …

Coherent Water Window X Ray by Phase-Matched High-Order Harmonic Generation<? format?> in Neutral Media

EJ Takahashi, T Kanai, KL Ishikawa, Y Nabekawa… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We demonstrate the generation of a coherent water window x ray by extending the plateau
region of high-order harmonics under a neutral-medium condition. The maximum harmonic …

X-ray quantum optics

BW Adams, C Buth, SM Cavaletto, J Evers… - Journal of modern …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum optics with X-rays has long been a somewhat exotic activity, but it is now rapidly
becoming relevant as precision x-ray optics and novel X-ray light sources, and high-intensity …

Magnetic moment manipulation by a Josephson current

F Konschelle, A Buzdin - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
We consider a Josephson junction where the weak link is formed by a noncentrosymmetric
ferromagnet. In such a junction, the superconducting current acts as a direct driving force on …

Application of high harmonic radiation in surface science

T Haarlammert, H Zacharias - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2009 - Elsevier
The development of compact and commercially available table-top, ultra-short pulse laser
systems with pulse energies of the order of a few mJ, pulse durations of less then 30fs and …

Frontiers of atomic high-harmonic generation

MC Kohler, T Pfeifer, KZ Hatsagortsyan… - Advances in Atomic …, 2012 - Elsevier
In the past two decades high-harmonic generation (HHG) has become a key process in
ultrafast science due to the extremely short time structure of the underlying electron …

Efficient high-order harmonic generation boosted by below-threshold harmonics

F Brizuela, CM Heyl, P Rudawski, D Kroon, L Rading… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases has been established as an important
technique for the generation of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses at ultrashort time …

Odd-frequency pairs and Josephson current through a strong ferromagnet

Y Asano, Y Sawa, Y Tanaka, AA Golubov - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2007 - APS
We study Josephson current in superconductor/diffusive ferromagnet/superconductor
junctions by using the recursive Green function method. When the exchange potential in a …

Scattering problem in nonequilibrium quasiclassical theory of metals and superconductors: general boundary conditions and applications

M Eschrig - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
I derive a general set of boundary conditions for quasiclassical transport theory of metals
and superconductors that is valid for equilibrium and nonequilibrium situations and includes …