[HTML][HTML] Matter manipulation with extreme terahertz light: Progress in the enabling THz technology

P Salén, M Basini, S Bonetti, J Hebling, M Krasilnikov… - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) light has proven to be a fine tool to probe and control quasi-particles and
collective excitations in solids, to drive phase transitions and associated changes in material …

[HTML][HTML] 10 years of pioneering X-ray science at the Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY

J Rossbach, JR Schneider, W Wurth - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Free-electron lasers produce extremely brief, coherent, and bright laser-like photon pulses
that allow to image matter at atomic resolution and at timescales faster than the …

Nanoscale spin reversal by non-local angular momentum transfer following ultrafast laser excitation in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo

CE Graves, AH Reid, T Wang, B Wu, S De Jong… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Ultrafast laser techniques have revealed extraordinary spin dynamics in magnetic
materials,,,,, that equilibrium descriptions of magnetism cannot explain. Particularly …

Four-wave mixing experiments with extreme ultraviolet transient gratings

F Bencivenga, R Cucini, F Capotondi, A Battistoni… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Four-wave mixing (FWM) processes, based on third-order nonlinear light–matter
interactions, can combine ultrafast time resolution with energy and wavevector selectivity …

Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers

M Harmand, R Coffee, MR Bionta, M Chollet… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Recently, few-femtosecond pulses have become available at hard X-ray free-electron lasers.
Coupled with the available sub-10 fs optical pulses, investigations into few-femtosecond …

Few-femtosecond time-resolved measurements of X-ray free-electron lasers

C Behrens, FJ Decker, Y Ding, VA Dolgashev… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers, with pulse durations ranging from a few to several hundred
femtoseconds, are uniquely suited for studying atomic, molecular, chemical and biological …

Probing the transition state region in catalytic CO oxidation on Ru

H Öström, H Öberg, H **n, J LaRue, M Beye… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Femtosecond x-ray laser pulses are used to probe the carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation
reaction on ruthenium (Ru) initiated by an optical laser pulse. On a time scale of a few …

Real-time observation of surface bond breaking with an X-ray laser

M Dell'Angela, T Anniyev, M Beye, R Coffee, A Föhlisch… - Science, 2013 - science.org
We used the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron x-ray laser to probe the electronic
structure of CO molecules as their chemisorption state on Ru (0001) changes upon exciting …

Ultrafast X-ray pulse characterization at free-electron lasers

I Grguraš, AR Maier, C Behrens, T Mazza, TJ Kelly… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The ability to fully characterize ultrashort, ultra-intense X-ray pulses at free-electron lasers
(FELs) will be crucial in experiments ranging from single-molecule imaging to extreme …

Ultrafast Melting of a Charge-Density Wave in the Mott Insulator

S Hellmann, M Beye, C Sohrt, T Rohwer, F Sorgenfrei… - Physical Review Letters, 2010 - APS
Femtosecond time-resolved core-level photoemission spectroscopy with a free-electron
laser is used to measure the atomic-site specific charge-order dynamics of the charge …