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most citedCoherent diffractive imaging of single helium nanodroplets with a high harmonic generation source

92 citations · 337 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces

Samuel Sahel-Schackis, Adam Summers, Ritika Dagar +29

The trihydrogen cation () initiates the ion-molecule reactions that build molecular complexity in interstellar space. Whether its canonical formation reaction, $\ma…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A finite-difference model for intense light interactions with dielectrics in the ultrafast ionization regime

Julia Apportin, Christian Peltz, Pavel Polynkin +3

We present a computationally efficient model that describes the interaction of intense, ultrashort infrared laser pulses with transparent materials in the strong ionization regime.…

physics.optics2025

Dichography: Two-frame Ultrafast Imaging from a Single Diffraction Pattern

Linos Hecht, Andre Al Haddad, Björn Bastian +47

We experimentally demonstrate that pairs of time-delayed ultrabright and ultrashort X-ray pulses of two different colors, delivered by modern X-ray Free Electron Lasers, can provid…

physics.optics2025

Model-free pattern separation of two-color ultrafast X-ray diffraction

Linos Hecht, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Asbjørn Ø. Lægdsmand +28

Two-color X-ray imaging with Free Electron Laser pulses offers a powerful approach for probing ultrafast structural dynamics in nanoscale systems, combining (near-)atomic spatial r…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Fast Simulation of Wide-Angle Coherent Diffractive Imaging

Paul Tuemmler, Julia Apportin, Thomas Fennel +1

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) using intense XUV and soft X-ray pulses holds the promise to deliver information on the three dimensional shape as well as the optica…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 8 cited

Melting, bubble-like expansion and explosion of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles

Simon Dold, Thomas Reichenbach, Alessandro Colombo +32

We report on time-resolved coherent diffraction imaging of gas-phase silver nanoparticles, strongly heated via their plasmon resonance. The x-ray diffraction images reveal a broad…

physics.atm-clus2022★ 9 cited

Three-Dimensional Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Isolated Faceted Nanostructures

Alessandro Colombo, Simon Dold, Patrice Kolb +29

The structure and dynamics of isolated nanosamples in free flight can be directly visualized via single-shot coherent diffractive imaging using the intense and short pulses of X-ra…

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.comp-ph2022★ 8 cited

The Scatman: an approximate method for fast wide-angle scattering simulations

Alessandro Colombo, Julian Zimmermann, Bruno Langbehn +8

Single-shot Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) is a powerful approach to characterize the structure and dynamics of isolated nanoscale objects such as single viruses, aerosols, nan…

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

Characterization of laser-induced ionization dynamics in solid dielectrics

Peter Jürgens, Benjamin Liewehr, Björn Kruse +8

The formation of an electron-hole plasma during the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with transparent solids lies at the heart of femtosecond laser processing. Advan…

physics.optics2020★ 4 cited

Quantum coherent diffractive imaging

Björn Kruse, Benjamin Liewehr, Christian Peltz +1

Coherent diffractive imaging has enabled the structural analysis of individual free nanoparticles in a single shot and offers the tracking of their light induced dynamics with unpr…

physics.atm-clus2019★ 5 cited

Fast reconstruction of single-shot wide-angle diffraction images through deep learning

Thomas Stielow, Robin Schmidt, Christian Peltz +2

Single-shot X-ray imaging of short-lived nanostructures such as clusters and nanoparticles near a phase transition or non-crystalizing objects such as large proteins and viruses is…

physics.optics2019★ 71 cited

Origin of strong-field induced low-order harmonic generation in amorphous solids

P. Jürgens, B. Liewehr, B. Kruse +8

Kerr-type nonlinearities form the basis for our physical understanding of nonlinear optical phenomena in condensed matter, such as self-focusing, solitary waves, and wave mixing. I…

physics.atm-clus2018★ 64 cited

Three-Dimensional Shapes of Spinning Helium Nanodroplets

Bruno Langbehn, Katharina Sander, Yevheniy Ovcharenko +23

A significant fraction of superfluid helium nanodroplets produced in a free-jet expansion have been observed to gain high angular momentum resulting in large centrifugal deformatio…

physics.atm-clus2016★ 92 cited

Coherent diffractive imaging of single helium nanodroplets with a high harmonic generation source

Daniela Rupp, Nils Monserud, Bruno Langbehn +14

Coherent diffractive imaging of individual free nanoparticles has opened novel routes for the in-situ analysis of their transient structural, optical, and electronic properties. So…

physics.atm-clus2012★ 29 cited

Evolution of dopant-induced helium nanoplasmas

S. R. Krishnan, Ch. Peltz, L. Fechner +13

Two-component nanoplasmas generated by strong-field ionization of doped helium nanodroplets are studied in a pump-probe experiment using few-cycle laser pulses in combination with…

physics.atm-clus2010★ 16 cited

Resonant charging of Xe clusters in Helium nanodroplets under intense laser fields

Christian Peltz, Thomas Fennel

We theoretically investigate the impact of multiple plasmon resonances on the charging of Xe clusters embedded in He nanodroplets under intense pump-probe laser excitation. Our mol…