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most citedOptimizing Spectral Phase Transfer in Four-Wave Mixing with Gas-filled Capillaries: A Trade-off Study

4 citations · 10 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2026

Programmable Hard-X-Ray Spectral Comb Generation via Laser-Compton Scattering

Hao Zhang, Ji Qiang, 1Ji Qiang +2

Independent control of line spacing and offset underpins programmable frequency-comb spectroscopy, yet it has not been established for hard-X-ray sources based on inverse Compton s…

quant-ph2026

Learning high-dimensional quantum entanglement through physics-guided neural networks

Yang Xu, Hao Zhang, Wenwen Zhang +4

High-gain spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) produces bright squeezed vacuum with rich high-dimensional entanglement, but its output is inherently multimodal and non-per…

physics.optics2026

A spectral phase modulation transfer function for dispersive four-wave mixing

Linshan Sun, Sergio Carbajo

Indirect control of ultraviolet (UV) pulse phase through nonlinear frequency conversion is attractive when direct UV pulse shaping is limited by material loss, dispersion, and dama…

physics.optics2026

Programmable spectral phase transfer to the ultraviolet by gas-filled-fibre four-wave mixing

Linshan Sun, Hao Zhang, Cameron Leary +2

Programmable shaping of femtosecond ultraviolet (UV) pulses is still much less flexible than at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mainly because direct UV modulators remain li…

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

Physics-Guided Inverse Design of Optical Waveforms for Nonlinear Electromagnetic Dynamics

Hao Zhang, Jack Hirschman, Randy Lemons +7

Structured optical waveforms are emerging as powerful control fields for the next generation of complex photonic and electromagnetic systems, where the temporal structure of light…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Structured Light at the Extreme: Harnessing Spatiotemporal Control for High-Field Laser-Matter Interactions

Sergio Carbajo, Seung-Whan Bahk, Justin Baker +19

This review charts the emerging paradigm of intelligent structured light for high-field laser-matter interactions, where the precise spatiotemporal and vectorial control of light i…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Universal Quantum Interconnects via Phase-Coherent Four-Wave Mixing

Hao Zhang, Yang Xu, Linshan Sun +3

Quantum transduction, which enables the coherent conversion of quantum information between disparate physical platforms, is a cornerstone for realizing scalable and interoperable q…

physics.optics2025

Charged-particle control via spatio-temporally tailored pulses from gas-based nonlinear optics

Hao Zhang, Joshua Mann, James Rosenzweig +2

Gas-filled waveguides enable few-cycle, spatio-temporally coupled (STC) pulses with programmable structure, opening new routes to control charged particles with optical fields. Thi…

physics.optics2025

Ultrafast Pulse Retrieval from Partial FROG Traces Using Implicit Diffusion Models

Abhimanyu Borthakur, Jack Eden Hirschman, Sergio Carbajo

Ultrashort laser pulses enable attosecond-scale measurements and drive breakthroughs across science and technology, but their routine use hinges on reliable pulse characterization.…

physics.optics2025

Hybrid Deep Reconstruction for Vignetting-Free Upconversion Imaging through Scattering in ENZ Materials

Hao Zhang, Yang Xu, Wenwen Zhang +10

Optical imaging through turbid or heterogeneous environments (collectively referred to as complex media) is fundamentally challenged by scattering, which scrambles structured spati…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Antisymmetric chirp transfer to high-energy ultraviolet pulses via gas-based chirped four-wave mixing

Linshan Sun, Hao Zhang, Cameron Leary +5

Spectro-temporal shaping of high-power femtosecond ultraviolet (UV) pulses remains a key challenge in ultrafast optics. Tailoring high-energy, ultrashort UV pulses underpins applic…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Deep Learning Assisted Modeling for Nonlinear Optics

Jack Hirschman, Erfan Abedi, Minyang Wang +6

Modeling second-order () nonlinear optical processes remains computationally expensive due to the need to resolve fast field oscillations and simulate wave propagation usi…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Nonlinear Shaping in the Picosecond Gap

Randy Lemons, Jack Hirschman, Hao Zhang +2

Lightwave pulse shaping in the picosecond regime has remained unaddressed because it resides beyond the limits of state-of-the-art techniques, either due to its inherently narrow s…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Optimizing Spectral Phase Transfer in Four-Wave Mixing with Gas-filled Capillaries: A Trade-off Study

Hao Zhang, Linshan Sun, Jack Hirschman +3

Four-wave mixing (FWM) in gas-filled hollow-core capillaries, a nonlinear optical process that mixes signal and pump photon frequencies to generate idler frequency photons, offers…

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…