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20122026
most citedCoherent control with a short-wavelength Free Electron Laser

240 citations · 673 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Two-colour coherent control of nuclear and electron dynamics in photoionization of molecular hydrogen with FEL pulses

Fabian Holzmeier, Alberto Gonzalez-Castrillo, Thomas M. Baumann +12

The extension of coherent - control schemes, recently implemented in free-electron lasers (FELs), to molecular systems offers new opportunities to control chemical dynamics…

physics.optics2026

Roadmap on Attosecond Science

Rocio Borrego Varillas, Pierre Agostini, Fernando Ardana-Lamas +108

Twenty-five years have passed since the first experimental demonstration of attosecond pulses, marking the advent of our ability to resolve and control electron motion in real time…

physics.atom-ph2026

Breakdown of the isotropic asymptotic approximation in two-colour photoionisation

Sooraj Rajendran, Miguel Benito de Lama, Praveen Kumar Maroju +24

The Wigner delay is defined as the energy derivative of the scattering phase of a particle in a given potential, unveiling the time taken (or gained) due to the interaction. The ch…

physics.atom-ph2025

Dichroic Electron Emission Patterns from Oriented Helium Ions

Niclas Wieland, Klaus Bartschat, Filippa Dudda +17

We report a joint experimental and theoretical study using a combination of polarization-controlled free-electron-laser (FEL) and near-infra\-red (NIR) pulses in a synchronized two…

physics.atm-clus2025★ 10 cited

Relaxation dynamics in excited helium nanodroplets probed with high resolution, time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

A. C. LaForge, J. D. Asmussen, B. Bastian +18

Superfluid helium nanodroplets are often considered as transparent and chemically inert nanometer-sized cryo-matrices for high-resolution or time-resolved spectroscopy of embedded…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 3 cited

Circular Dichroism in Multiphoton Ionization of Resonantly Excited Helium Ions near Channel Closing

Rene Wagner, Markus Ilchen, Nicolas Douguet +16

The circular dichroism (CD) of photoelectrons generated by near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses using multiphoton ionization of excited He ions in the 3p(m=+1) state. The ions were…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 35 cited

Strong-field quantum control in the extreme ultraviolet using pulse shaping

Fabian Richter, Ulf Saalmann, Enrico Allaria +40

Tailored light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime enable the manipulation and control of quantum systems with up to unit efficiency, with applications ranging from q…

quant-ph2023★ 30 cited

Generation of entanglement using a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser

Saikat Nandi, Axel Stenquist, Asimina Papoulia +25

Quantum entanglement between the degrees of freedom encountered in the classical world is challenging to observe due to the surrounding environment. To elucidate this issue, we inv…

physics.atom-ph2023

Control of ion-photoelectron entanglement and coherence via Rabi oscillations

Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Kevin C. Prince, Kiyoshi Ueda

We report a theoretical investigation of photoionization by a pair of coherent, ultrashort fundamental and second-harmonic extreme-ultraviolet pulses, where the photon energies are…

physics.atm-clus2022★ 11 cited

Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets

Bruno Langbehn, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Andrew Clark +23

We have explored the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle scattering in a pump-probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon atoms…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 28 cited

Time-resolved chiral X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy with transiently enhanced atomic site-selectivity: a Free Electron Laser investigation of electronically excited fenchone enantiomers

D. Faccialà, M. Devetta, S. Beauvarlet +28

Chiral molecules are widespread in nature, playing a fundamental role in bio-chemical processes and in the origin of life itself. The observation of dynamics in chiral molecules is…

physics.atm-clus2021★ 11 cited

Collective enhancement of above threshold ionization by resonantly excited helium nanodroplets

R. Michiels, M. Abu-samha, L. B. Madsen +18

Clusters and nanodroplets hold the promise of enhancing high-order nonlinear optical effects due to their high local density. However, only moderate enhancement has been demonstrat…

physics.atm-clus2020★ 4 cited

Evolution and ion kinetics of a XUV-induced nanoplasma in ammonia clusters

R. Michiels, A. C. LaForge, M. Bohlen +14

High-intensity extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses from a free-electron laser can be used to create a nanoplasma in clusters. In Ref. [Michiels et al. PCCP, 2020; 22: 7828-7834] we in…

physics.atm-clus2019★ 36 cited

Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets

M. Mudrich, A. LaForge, F. Stienkemeier +21

The relaxation of photoexcited nanosystems is a fundamental process of light-matter interaction. Depending on the couplings of the internal degrees of freedom, relaxation can be ul…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 35 cited

Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay

D. Iablonskyi, K. Ueda, Kenichi L. Ishikawa +21

Single photon laser enabled Auger decay (spLEAD) has been redicted theoretically [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083004 (2013)] and here we report its first experimental observation in neon…

physics.optics2017★ 240 cited

Coherent control with a short-wavelength Free Electron Laser

K. C. Prince, E. Allaria, C. Callegari +37

XUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) produce short wavelength pulses with high intensity, ultrashort duration, well-defined polarization and transverse coherence, and have bee…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 15 cited

Fano Resonances observed in Helium Nanodroplets

A. C. LaForge, D. Regina, G. Jabbari +13

Doubly-excited Rydberg states of helium (He) nanodroplets have been studied using synchrotron radiation. We observed Fano resonances related to the atomic N = 2,0 series as a funct…

physics.atm-clus2013★ 59 cited

Collective Autoionization in Multiply-Excited Systems: A novel ionization process observed in Helium Nanodroplets

A. C. LaForge, M. Drabbels, N. Brauer +19

Free electron lasers (FELs) offer the unprecedented capability to study reaction dynamics and image the structure of complex systems. When multiple photons are absorbed in complex…

physics.chem-ph2012★ 121 cited

Experimental Verification of the Chemical Sensitivity of Two-Site Double Core-Hole States Formed by an X-ray FEL

P. Salen, P. van der Meulen, H. T. Schmidt +16

We have performed X-ray two-photon photoelectron spectroscopy (XTPPS) using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) in order to study double core-hol…