Attoscience and ultrafast optics

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  • Laser-induced electron diffraction of the ultrafast umbrella motion in ammonia 

    Belsa, B.; Amini, K.; Liu, X.; Sánchez, A.; Steinle, T.; Steinmetzer, J.; Le, A. T.; Moshammer, R.; Pfeifer, T.; Ullrich, J.; Moszynski, R.; Lin, C. D.; Grafe, S.; Biegert, J. (AIP, 2021-01-13)
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    Visualizing molecular transformations in real-time requires a structural retrieval method with Ångström spatial and femtosecond temporal atomic resolution. Imaging of hydrogen-containing molecules additionally requires an ...

  • Attosecond state-resolved carrier motion in quantum materials probed by soft x-ray XANES 

    Buades, Bárbara; Picón, Antonio; Berger, Emma; León, Iker; Di Palo, Nicola; Cousin, Seth L.; Cocchi, Caterina; Pellegrin, Eric; Herrero Martin, Javier; Mañas-Valero, Samuel; Coronado, Eugenio; Danz, Thomas; Draxl, Claudia; Uemoto, Mitsuharu; Yabana, Kazuhiro; Schultze, Martin; Wall, Simon; Zürch, Michael; Biegert, Jens (AIP, 2021-03-10)
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    Recent developments in attosecond technology led to table-top x-ray spectroscopy in the soft x-ray range, thus uniting the element- and state-specificity of core-level x-ray absorption spectroscopy with the time resolution ...

  • Molecular structure retrieval directly from laboratory-frame photoelectron spectra in laser-induced electron diffraction 

    Sánchez, A.; Amini, K.; Wang, S.-J.; Steinle, T.; Belsa, B.; Danek, J.; Le, A. T.; Liu, X.; Moshammer, R.; Pfeifer, T.; Richter, M.; Ullrich, J.; Gräfe, S.; Lin, C. D.; Biegert, J. (Nature Research, 2021-03-09)
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    Ubiquitous to most molecular scattering methods is the challenge to retrieve bond distance and angle from the scattering signals since this requires convergence of pattern matching algorithms or fitting methods. This ...

  • Transient Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Spectroscopy in Layered Semi-Metals 

    Sidiropolous, T. P.H.; Di Palo, N.; Rivas, D. E.; Severino, S.; Reduzzi, M.; Buades, B.; Leon, I.; Cousin, S. L.; Hemmer, M.; Cocchi, C.; Pellegrin, E.; Herrero Martin, J.; Mañas-Valero, S.; Coronado, E.; Danz, T.; Draxi, C.; Uemoto, M.; Yabana, K.; Schultze, Martin; Wall, Simon; Picon, A.; Biegert, J. (SPIE, 2020)
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    X-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) spectroscopy is a well-established technique capable of extracting information about a material’s electronic and lattice structure with atomic resolution. While the near-edge region ...

  • Role of high ponderomotive energy in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization 

    Shaaran, T.; Camus, N.; Dura, J.; Fechner, L.; Thai, A.; Britz, A.; Baudisch, M.; Steinle, T.; Senftleben, A.; Schröter, C. D.; Ullrich, J.; Pfeifer, T.; Keitel, C. H.; Biegert, J.; Hatsagortsyan, K. Z.; Moshammer, R. (APS, 2019-02-19)
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    The laser-induced nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) of rare gas atoms in the near and mid-IR laser fields is studied experimentally and theoretically. We investigate electron-electron correlation at high recollision ...

  • Symphony on strong field approximation 

    Amini, Kasra; Biegert, Jens; Calegari, Francesca; Chacón, Alexis; Ciappina, Marcelo F.; Dauphin, Alexandre; Efimov, Dmitry K.; Figueira de Morisson Faria, Carla; Giergiel, Krzysztof; Gniewek, Piotr; Landsman, Alexandra S.; Lesiuk, Michał; Mandrysz, Michał; Maxwell, Andrew S.; Moszynski, Robert; Ortmann, Lisa; Pérez-Hernández, Jose Antonio; Picón, Antonio; Pisanty, Emilio; Prauzner-Bechcicki, Jakub; Sacha, Krzysztof; Suárez, Noslen; Zaïr, Amelle; Zakrzewski, Jakub; Lewenstein, Maciej (IOP, 2019-10-14)
    Article
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    This paper has been prepared by the Symphony collaboration (University of Warsaw, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, DESY/CNR and ICFO) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the ‘simple man’s models’ which underlie most of ...

  • Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Dirac fermions in graphene 

    Baudisch, Matthias; Marini, Andrea; Cox, Joel D.; Zhu, Tony; Silva, Francisco; Teichmann, Stephan; Massicotte, Mathieu; Koppens, Frank H. L.; Levitov, Leonid S.; García de Abajo, F. Javier; Biegert, Jens (Nature, 2018-03-09)
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    The speed of solid-state electronic devices, determined by the temporal dynamics of charge carriers, could potentially reach unprecedented petahertz frequencies through direct manipulation by optical fields, consisting ...

  • Next Generation Driver for Attosecond and Laser-plasma Physics 

    Rivas, D. E.; Borot, A.; Cardenas, D. E.; Marcus, G.; Gu, X.; Herrmann, D.; Xu, J.; Tan, J.; Kormin, D.; Ma, G.; Dallari, W.; Tsakiris, G. D.; Földes, I. B.; Chou, S.-w.; Weidman, M.; Bergues, B.; Wittmann, T.; Schröder, H.; Tzallas, P.; Charalambidis, D.; Razskazovskaya, O.; Pervak, V.; Krausz, F.; Veisz, L. (Nature, 2017-07-12)
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    The observation and manipulation of electron dynamics in matter call for attosecond light pulses, routinely available from high-order harmonic generation driven by few-femtosecond lasers. However, the energy limitation of ...

  • Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging of bond breaking in di-ionized acetylene 

    Wolter, B.; Pullen, M. G.; Le, A.-T.; Baudisch, M.; Doblhoff-Dier, K.; Senftleben, A.; Hemmer, M.; Schröter, C. D.; Ullrich, J.; Pfeifer, T.; Moshammer, R.; Gräfe, S.; Vendrell, O.; Lin, C. D.; Biegert, Jens (Science, 2016-10-16)
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    Visualizing chemical reactions as they occur requires atomic spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution. Here, we report imaging of the molecular structure of acetylene (C2H2) 9 femtoseconds after ionization. Using ...

  • Ultrashort pulse generation in the mid-IR 

    Pires, H.; Baudisch, M.; Sanchez, D.; Hemmer, M.; Biegert, Jens (Elsevier, 2015-09-01)
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    Recent developments in laser sources operating in the mid-IR (3–8μm) have been motivated by the numerous possibilities for both fundamental and applied research. One example is the ability to unambiguously detect pollutants ...

  • Three-wave mixing mediated femtosecond pulse compression in BBO 

    Grün, A.; Austin, Dane R.; Cousin, Seth L.; Biegert, Jens (OSA, 2015-10-15)
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    Nonlinear pulse compression mediated by three-wave mixing is demonstrated for ultrashort Ti:sapphire pulses in a type II phase-matched 𝛽�β-barium borate (BBO) crystal using noncollinear geometry. 170 μJ pulses at 800 nm ...

  • Kinematically complete measurements of strong eld ionisation with mid-IR pulses 

    Pullen, Michael G.; Dura, Judith; Wolter, Benjamin; Baudisch, Matthias; Hemmer, Michael; Camus, Nicolas; Senftleben, Arne; Schroeter, Claus Dieter; Moshammer, Robert; Ullrich, Joachim; Biegert, Jens (IOP, 2014-10-08)
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    Recent observations of three unique peaks near 1 eV, 100 meV and 1 meV in the electron spectra generated by ionization using intense mid-IR pulses have challenged the current understanding of strong-field (SF) ionization. ...

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