Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has the potential to revolutionize the field
of particle accelerators. By providing acceleration gradients orders of magnitude larger than …

The possibility to accelerate electron beams to ultra-relativistic velocities over short
distances by using plasma-based technology holds the potential for a revolution in the field …

Conventional spectroscopy uses classical light to detect matter properties through the
variation of its response with frequencies or time delays. Quantum light opens up new …

Normalized correlation functions provide expedient means for determining the photon-
number properties of light. These higher-order moments, also called the normalized factorial …

The effectiveness of reconstructive imaging using the homogeneous transport of intensity
equation may be regarded as “unreasonable,” because it has been shown to significantly …

The invention of optical lasers led to a revolution in the field of optics and to the creation of
such fields of research as quantum optics. The reason was their unique statistical and …

The advent of accelerator-driven free-electron lasers (FEL) has opened new avenues for
high-resolution structure determination via diffraction methods that go far beyond …

The advent of free-electron lasers (FELs) in the soft-and hard-x-ray spectral regions has
introduced the possibility to probe electronic, magnetic, and structural dynamics, in both …

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have brought new ways to probe and manipulate atomic
and molecular dynamics with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions. A …

The nature of light, extending from the optical to the x-ray regime, is reviewed from a
diffraction point of view by comparing field-based statistical optics and photon-based …