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most citedGeneration of isolated attosecond pulses in the far field by spatial filtering with an intense few-cycle mid-infrared laser

57 citations · 207 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

quant-ph2026

Coherent quantum control of dark excitons in hybrid metal organic chalchogenolates

Christian L. McCoy, Tobias Saule, Mariya Aleksich +5

Artificial atom-like systems are a promising candidate for next generation quantum processing. Among them, dark excitons exhibit one of the longest lifetimes at high temperatures.…

physics.optics2026

Remote dispersion scan: transformer-network retrieval of ultrafast pulses after non-linear propagation

Kevin Watson, Yutong Geng, Tobias Saule +2

Accurate and rapid characterization of broadband electric fields is essential for all ultrafast applications and remains an active field of research. In this work, we introduce rem…

physics.atom-ph2025

Delay in electronic vortex states created by multiphoton ionization with single elliptically polarized laser pulses

Edward McManus, Phi-Hung Tran, Michael Davino +6

We show experimentally and theoretically that vortex-shaped structures in the photoelectron momentum distribution can be observed for atoms interacting with a single intense ellipt…

physics.optics2025

Enhancing high-order harmonic generation in two-color laser fields: A comparison of single- and two-color schemes

Jan Troß, Travis Severt, eorgios Kolliopoulos +3

We compare the enhancement of high-order harmonic generation in argon using 800--400 and 800--266~nm laser fields with their optimized single-color counterparts. We observe that th…

physics.optics2025

Fusion in a nanoshell: Harnessing plasmonic fields for nuclear reactions

Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Jacob Levitt, Carlos Trallero-Herrero

The surface of metal nanoparticles can support plasmonic excitations. These excitations dramatically amplify the electric field of incident light (by several orders of magnitude),…

quant-ph2024

Quantum sensing in Kerr parametric oscillators

Jorge Chávez-Carlos, Daniela Garrido-Ramírez, A. J. Vega Carmona +5

Quantum metrology and quantum sensing aim to use quantum properties to enhance measurement precision beyond what could be classically achieved. Here, we demonstrate how the analysi…

physics.atom-ph2024

Symmetries in 3D photoelectron momentum spectroscopy as precursory methods for dichroic and enantiosensitive measurements

Michael Davino, Edward McManus, Tobias Saule +5

3D photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) are measured from an atomic target ionized by ultrafast, elliptical fields of opposite handedness. Comparing these PADs to one another…

physics.optics2023

Molecular alignment-assisted spectral broadening and shifting in the near-infrared with a recycled depleted pump from an optical parametric amplifier

Zhanna Rodnova, Tobias Saule, George Gibson +1

We demonstrate how the depleted pump of an optical parametric amplifier can be recycled for impulsive alignment of a molecular gas inside a hollow-core fiber and use such alignment…

physics.optics2023

Single photon zeptosecond interferometry

Geoffrey R. Harrison, Tobias Saule, R. Esteban Goetz +6

We demonstrate the generation of a train of attosecond XUV pulses that are in a superposition of wavefront states. Such superposition yields a high precision, self-referencing, com…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

Increased phase precision of spatial light modulators using irrational slopes: Application to attosecond metrology

Geoffrey R. Harrison, Tobias Saule, Brandin Davis +1

The ability of spatial light modulators (SLMs) to modify the amplitude and phase of light has proved them invaluable to the optics and photonics community. In many applications the…

physics.ins-det2022

A plano-convex thick-lens velocity map imaging apparatus for direct, high resolution 3D momentum measurements of photoelectrons with ion time-of-flight coincidence

Michael Davino, Edward McManus, Nora G. Helming +9

Since its inception, velocity map imaging (VMI) has been a powerful tool for measuring the 2D momentum distribution of photoelectrons generated by strong laser fields. There has be…

physics.optics2022

Characterization of an aerosolized nanoparticle beam beyond the diffraction limit through strong field ionization

Michael Davino, Tobias Saule, Nora G. Helming +2

The study of nanomaterials is an active area of research for technological applications as well as fundamental science. A common method for studying properties of isolated nanopart…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Decadal bandwidth phase matching for frequency resolved optical gating from the near to the long wavelength infrared

Brandin Davis, Tobias Saule, Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

Ultra-fast laser pulses have made possible the study of extreme nonlinear processes. Many of these experiments however require a full characterization of the electric field, which…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 19 cited

Few-femtosecond resolved imaging of laser-driven nanoplasma expansion

C. Peltz, J. A. Powell, P. Rupp +23

The free expansion of a planar plasma surface is a fundamental non-equilibrium process relevant for various fields but as-yet experimentally still difficult to capture. The signifi…

physics.optics2021★ 10 cited

Strong-field control of plasmonic properties in core-shell nanoparticles

Jeffrey Powell, Jianxiong Li, Adam Summers +10

The strong-field control of plasmonic nanosystems opens up new perspectives for nonlinear plasmonic spectroscopy and petahertz electronics. Questions, however, remain regarding the…

physics.optics2021

Asymmetric high energy dual optical parametric amplifier for parametric processes and waveform synthesis

Brandin Davis, Tobias Saule, Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

We report on an asymmetric high energy dual optical parametric amplifier (OPA) which is capable of having either the idlers, signals, or depleted pumps, relatively phase locked at…

physics.optics2021★ 8 cited

Higher order harmonic generation and strong field ionization with Bessel-Gauss beams in a thin jet geometry

Michael Davino, Adam Summers, Tobias Saule +4

A promising alternative to Gaussian beams for use in strong field science is Bessel-Gauss (BG or Bessel-like) laser beams as they are easily produced with readily available optics…

physics.optics2021★ 3 cited

Unraveling Ultrafast Photoionization in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lianjie Xue, Song Liu, Yang Hang +17

The non-linear response of dielectrics to intense, ultrashort electric fields has been a sustained topic of interest for decades with one of its most important applications being f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 34 cited

Interplay of pulse duration, peak intensity, and particle size in laser-driven electron emission from silica nanospheres

Jeffrey A. Powell, Adam M. Summers, Qingcao Liu +6

We present the results of a systematic study of photoelectron emission from gasphase dielectric nanoparticles (SiO2) irradiated by intense 25 fs, 780 nm linearly polarized laser pu…

physics.chem-ph2019

High harmonic generation spectroscopy via orbital angular momentum

Jan Troßand Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

We present an experimental technique using orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a fundamental laser field to drive High Harmonic Generation (HHG). The mixing of beams with different O…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 21 cited

A self referencing attosecond interferometer with zeptosecond precision

Jan Troß, Georgios Kolliopoulos, Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

In this work we demonstrate the generation of two intense, ultrafast laser pulses that allow a controlled interferometric measurement of higher harmonic generation pulses with 12.8…

physics.optics2013★ 24 cited

Optical damage threshold of Au nanowires in strong femtosecond laser fields

A. M. Summers, A. S. Ramm, Govind Paneru +3

Ultrashort, intense light pulses permit the study of nanomaterials in the optical non-linear regime, potentially leading to optoelectronics that operate in the petahertz domain. Th…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 23 cited

Generation of broad XUV continuous high harmonic spectra and isolated attosecond pulses with intense mid-infrared lasers

C. Trallero-Herrero, C. Jin, B. E. Schmidt +7

We present experimental results showing the appearance of a near-continuum in the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra of atomic and molecular species as the driving laser…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 57 cited

Generation of isolated attosecond pulses in the far field by spatial filtering with an intense few-cycle mid-infrared laser

Cheng Jin, Anh-Thu Le, Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero +1

We report theoretical calculations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of Xe with the inclusion of multi-electron effects and macroscopic propagation of the fundamental and har…