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20102026
most citedTeravolt-per-meter plasma wakefields from low-charge, femtosecond electron beams

13 citations · 25 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.acc-ph2026

Mutually phase-stable tunable attosecond soft X-ray attosecond pulses from a free-electron laser

River Robles, Kurtis Borne, Mathew Britton +16

We demonstrate the production of mutually phase-stable attosecond X-ray pulse pairs with tunable relative time delays and phases in a cascaded X-ray free-electron laser. We showcas…

physics.acc-ph2026

Broadband hard X-ray attosecond pulses from extremely chirped electron beams

River Robles, Veronica Guo, David Cesar +10

Attosecond pulses from free-electron lasers have opened the doors to atomic site-specific studies of bound electronic dynamics on their natural, sub-femtosecond timescales. Key to…

physics.acc-ph2026

Advanced Control of Electron Beams: Tailoring X-ray Production with Programmable Laser Shaping

Jack Hirschman, Randy Lemons, Hao Zhang +23

Leveraging the full scientific capabilities of next-generation high-repetition-rate free-electron lasers requires programmable control over electron-beam properties at their source…

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

Upstream Laser-based Longitudinal Enhancement of Relativistic Photoelectrons

Hao Zhang, Randy Lemons, Jack Hirschman +23

Controlling the longitudinal phase space of high-brightness relativistic electron beams is crucial for advancing a broad spectrum of charged-particle-based instrumentation and scie…

physics.optics2025

Fluorescence intensity correlations enable 3D imaging without sample rotations

Robert G. Radloff, Felix F. Zimmermann, Siqi Li +23

Lensless X-ray imaging provides element-specific nanoscale insights into thick samples beyond the reach of conventional light and electron microscopy. Coherent diffraction imaging…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear reversal of photo-excitation on the attosecond time scale improves ultrafast x-ray diffraction images

Anatoli Ulmer, Phay J. Ho, Bruno Langbehn +28

The advent of isolated and intense sub-femtosecond X-ray pulses enables tracking of quantummechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids. The combination of X-ray spectros…

physics.optics2025

Experimental demonstration of attosecond hard X-ray pulses

Ichiro Inoue, River Robles, Aliaksei Halavanau +24

We present the first direct experimental confirmation of attosecond pulse generation in the hard X-ray regime with a free-electron laser. Our experiment is based on measurements of…

physics.data-an2024

Covariance Analysis of Impulsive Streaking

Jun Wang, Zhaoheng Guo, Erik Isele +4

We present a comprehensive framework of modeling covariance in angular streaking experiments. Within the impulsive streaking regime, the displacement of electron momentum distribut…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Attosecond Coherent Electron Motion in a Photoionized Aromatic Molecule

Taran Driver, Zhaoheng Guo, Erik Isele +50

In molecular systems, the ultrafast motion of electrons initiates the process of chemical change. Tracking this electronic motion across molecules requires coupling attosecond time…

physics.acc-ph2024

Experimental generation of extreme electron beams for advanced accelerator applications

Claudio Emma, Nathan Majernik, Kelly Swanson +13

In this Letter we report on the experimental generation of high energy (10 GeV), ultra-short (fs-duration), ultra-high current (0.1 MA), petawatt peak power electron beams in a par…

physics.optics2024

Attosecond Inner-Shell Lasing at Angstrom Wavelengths

Thomas M. Linker, Aliaksei Halavanau, Thomas Kroll +34

Since the invention of the laser nonlinear effects such as filamentation, Rabi-cycling and collective emission have been explored in the optical regime leading to a wide range of s…

physics.ins-det2024

Design and Performance of a Magnetic Bottle Electron Spectrometer for High-Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Kurtis Borne, Jordan T ONeal, Jun Wang +19

We describe the design and performance of a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer~(MBES) for high-energy electron spectroscopy. Our design features a ~m long electron drif…

physics.acc-ph2024

"Beam `a la carte": laser heater shaping for attosecond pulses in a multiplexed x-ray free-electron laser

Siqi Li, Zhen Zhang, Shawn Alverson +19

Electron beam shaping allows the control of the temporal properties of x-ray free-electron laser pulses from femtosecond to attosecond timescales. Here we demonstrate the use of a…

physics.acc-ph2024

Spectrotemporal shaping of attosecond x-ray pulses with a fresh-slice free-electron laser

River R. Robles, Kirk A. Larsen, David Cesar +14

We propose a scheme allowing coherent shaping, i.e., controlling both the amplitude and phase, of attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers. We show that by seeding an FEL wi…

physics.acc-ph2024

Three-dimensional theory of superradiant free-electron lasers

River R. Robles, Luca Giannessi, Agostino Marinelli

The soliton-like superradiant regime of free-electron lasers (FEL) offers a promising path towards ultrashort pulses, beyond the natural limit dictated by the bandwidth of the high…

physics.atom-ph2024

Attosecond Delays in X-ray Molecular Ionization

Taran Driver, Miles Mountney, Jun Wang +34

The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous, but exhibits attosecond delays that can reveal complex molecular dynamics. Sub-femtosecond duration light pulses provide the re…

physics.chem-ph2024

Attosecond X-ray Core-level Chronoscopy of Aromatic Molecules

Jia-Bao Ji, Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver +32

Attosecond photoemission or photoionization delays are a unique probe of the structure and the electronic dynamics of matter. However, spectral congestion and spatial delocalizatio…

physics.acc-ph2024

Wavelength scaling and multi-color operation of a plasma driven attosecond X-ray source via harmonic generation

Rafi Hessami, Jenny Morgan, River Robles +3

The generation of high power coherent soft X-ray pulses of sub-100 as duration and 10 nm wavelength using beams from a GeV energy plasma wakefield accelerator has been recently inv…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 8 cited

Phase retrieval from angular streaking of XUV atomic ionization

Anatoli S. Kheifets, Rickson Wielian, Igor A. Ivanov +3

We demonstrate an accurate phase retrieval of XUV atomic ionization by streaking the photoelectron in a circularly polarized IR laser field. The streaking phase can then be convert…

physics.plasm-ph2010★ 13 cited

Teravolt-per-meter plasma wakefields from low-charge, femtosecond electron beams

J. B. Rosenzweig, G. Andonian, P. Bucksbaum +14

Recent initiatives in ultra-short, GeV electron beam generation have focused on achieving sub-fs pulses for driving X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) in single-spike mode. This sch…