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 …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

J Duris, S Li, T Driver, EG Champenois… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum-mechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the sub-
femtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires …

Ultrafast spectroscopy: State of the art and open challenges

M Maiuri, M Garavelli, G Cerullo - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast spectroscopy techniques use sequences of ultrashort light pulses (with femto-to
attosecond durations) to study photoinduced dynamical processes in atoms, molecules …

Streaking of 43-attosecond soft-X-ray pulses generated by a passively CEP-stable mid-infrared driver

T Gaumnitz, A Jain, Y Pertot, M Huppert, I Jordan… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Attosecond metrology has so far largely remained limited to titanium: sapphire lasers
combined with an active stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP). These sources …

The ultrafast X-ray spectroscopic revolution in chemical dynamics

PM Kraus, M Zürch, SK Cushing, DM Neumark… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The past two decades have seen rapid developments in short-pulse X-ray sources, which
have enabled the study of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies …

High-flux soft x-ray harmonic generation from ionization-shaped few-cycle laser pulses

AS Johnson, DR Austin, DA Wood, C Brahms… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Laser-driven high-harmonic generation provides the only demonstrated route to generating
stable, tabletop attosecond x-ray pulses but has low flux compared to other x-ray …

Transient absorption spectroscopy using high harmonic generation: a review of ultrafast X-ray dynamics in molecules and solids

R Geneaux, HJB Marroux… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Attosecond science opened the door to observing nuclear and electronic dynamics in real
time and has begun to expand beyond its traditional grounds. Among several spectroscopic …

Molecular chirality and its monitoring by ultrafast x-ray pulses

JR Rouxel, S Mukamel - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and
orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at …

Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses

N Hartmann, G Hartmann, R Heider, MS Wagner… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The time–energy information of ultrashort X-ray free-electron laser pulses generated by the
Linac Coherent Light Source is measured with attosecond resolution via angular streaking …