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most citedAttosecond Lighthouses

294 citations · 987 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Simple few-shot method for spectrally resolving the wavefront of an ultrashort laser pulse

Slava Smartsev, Aaron Liberman, Igor A. Andriyash +10

We present a novel and straightforward approach for the spatio-spectral characterization of ultrashort pulses. This minimally intrusive method relies on placing a mask with special…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 8 cited

Simultaneous generation and detection of energetic particle and radiation beams from relativistic plasma mirrors driven at kHz repetition rate

Jaismeen Kaur, Marie Ouillé, Dan Levy +8

We report on the first simultaneous measurement of high-order harmonics, relativistic electrons and low divergence proton beams generated from plasma mirrors driven at kHz repetiti…

physics.optics2023

Spatio-temporal pulse cleaning in multi-pass cells

Jaismeen Kaur, Louis Daniault, Zhao Cheng +5

We study both numerically and experimentally the use of two third-order nonlinear temporal filtering techniques, namely nonlinear ellipse rotation (NER) and cross-polarized wave (X…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 4 cited

Carrier-envelope phase controlled dynamics of relativistic electron beams in a laser-wakefield accelerator

Lucas Rovige, Joséphine Monzac, Julius Huijts +13

In laser-wakefield acceleration, an ultra-intense laser pulse is focused into an underdense plasma in order to accelerate electrons to relativistic velocities. In most cases, the p…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 13 cited

Low divergence proton beams from a laser-plasma accelerator at kHz repetition rate

Dan Levy, Igor A. Andriyash, Stefan Haessler +6

Proton beams with up to 100 pC bunch charge, 0.48 MeV cut-off energy and divergence as low as a were generated from solid targets at kHz repetition rate by a few-mJ fem…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

A Survey of Spatio-Temporal Couplings throughout High-Power Ultrashort Lasers

Antoine Jeandet, Spencer W. Jolly, Antonin Borot +19

The investigation of spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) of broadband light beams is becoming a key topic for the optimization as well as applications of ultrashort laser systems. Thi…

physics.optics2021

Single-stage few-cycle nonlinear compression of milliJoule energy Ti:Sa femtosecond pulses in a multipass cell

Louis Daniault, Zhao Cheng, Jaismeen Kaur +7

We report on the nonlinear temporal compression of mJ energy pulses from a Ti:Sa chirped pulse amplifier system in a multipass cell filled with argon. The pulses are compressed fro…

physics.optics2021★ 16 cited

Quantum-Optical Spectrometry in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions Using the High-Harmonic Generation Process: A Proposal

Theocharis Lamprou, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Stefan Haessler +8

Quantum-optical spectrometry is a recently developed shot-to-shot photon correlation-based method, namely using a quantum spectrometer (QS), that has been used to reveal the quantu…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Waveform control of relativistic electron dynamics in an underdense plasma

Julius Huijts, Lucas Rovige, Igor A. Andriyash +6

The interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with an underdense plasma is used in laser-plasma acceleration to create compact sources of ultrashort pulses of relativistic electron…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 22 cited

Optimization and stabilization of a kilohertz laser-plasma accelerator

L. Rovige, J. Huijts, I. A. Andriyash +13

Laser plasma acceleration at kilohertz repetition rate has recently been shown to work in two different regimes, with pulse lengths of either 30 fs or 3.5 fs. We now report on a sy…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 1 cited

High-Harmonic Generation and Correlated Electron Emission from Relativistic Plasma Mirrors at 1 kHz Repetition Rate

S. Haessler, M. Ouillé, J. Kaur +7

We report evidence for the first generation of XUV spectra from relativistic surface high-harmonic generation (SHHG) on plasma mirrors at a kilohertz repetition rate, emitted simul…

physics.optics2020★ 16 cited

Generation of XUV spectral continua from relativistic plasma mirrors driven in the near-single-cycle limit

Frederik Böhle, Maxence Thévenet, Maïmouna Bocoum +3

function of the CEP, we observe a transition from a modulated to a continuous SHHG spectrum, indicating the transition from double to high-contrast isolated attosecond pulse emissi…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 98 cited

Relativistic near-single-cycle optics at 1 kHz

Marie Ouillé, Aline Vernier, Frederik Boehle +11

We present a laser source delivering waveform-controlled 1.5-cycle pulses that can be focused to relativistic intensity at 1 kHz repetition rate. These pulses are generated by nonl…

physics.optics2018★ 29 cited

Carrier-envelope-phase stable, high-contrast, double chirped-pulse-amplification laser system

Aurelie Jullien, Aurelien Ricci, Frederik Bohle +6

We present the first carrier-envelope phase stable chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) featuring high temporal contrast for relativistic intensity laser-plasma interactions at 1 kHz repe…

physics.optics2018★ 123 cited

Compression of CEP-stable multi-mJ laser pulses down to 4 fs in long hollow fibers

Frederik Bohle, Martin Kretschmar, Aurelie Jullien +8

Carrier envelope phase stable 4 fs near-IR pulses with 3 mJ energy were generated by spectral broadening of circularly polarized 8 mJ pulses in a differentially pumped 2 m long com…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Anticorrelated emission of high-harmonics and fast electron beams from plasma mirrors

Maïmouna Bocoum, Maxence Thévenet, Frederik Böhle +5

We report for the first time on the anticorrelated emission of high-order harmonics and energetic electron beams from a solid-density plasma with a sharp vacuum interfaceplasma…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 61 cited

High-charge relativistic electron bunches from a kHz laser-plasma accelerator

Dominykas Gustas, Diego Guénot, Aline Vernier +5

We report on electron wakefield acceleration in the resonant bubble regime with few-millijoule near-single-cycle laser pulses at a kilohertz repetition rate. Using very tight focus…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 198 cited

Relativistic electron beams driven by kHz single-cycle light pulses

D. Guénot, D. Gustas, A. Vernier +8

Laser-plasma acceleration is an emerging technique for accelerating electrons to high energies over very short distances. The accelerated electron bunches have femtosecond duration…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 35 cited

Effect of the laser wavefront in a laser-plasma accelerator

B. Beaurepaire, A. Vernier, M. Bocoum +9

A high repetition rate electron source was generated by tightly focusing kHz, few-mJ laser pulses into an underdense plasma. This high intensity laser-plasma interaction led to sta…

physics.optics2013★ 29 cited

Carrier-envelope phase stability of hollow-fibers used for high-energy, few-cycle pulse generation

William A. Okell, Tobias Witting, Davide Fabris +9

We investigated the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stability of a hollow-fiber setup used for high-energy, few-cycle pulse generation. Saturation of the output pulse energy is observ…

physics.optics2011

High-contrast Ultrabroadband Frontend Source for High Intensity Few-Cycle Lasers

Aurélie Jullien, X. Chen, A. Ricci +7

An ultrabroadband seed source for high-power, high-contrast OPCPA systems at 800 nm is presented. The source is based on post compression in a hollow-core fiber followed by crossed…

physics.optics2011★ 294 cited

Attosecond Lighthouses

H. Vincenti, F. Quéré

Coherent light beams composed of ultrashort pulses are now increasingly used in different fields of Science, from time-resolved spectroscopy to plasma physics. Under the effect of…

physics.optics2007★ 28 cited

Macroscopic effects in attosecond pulse generation

T. Ruchon, C. P. Hauri, K. Varju +3

We examine how the generation and propagation of high-order harmonics in a partly ionized gas medium affect their strength and synchronization. The temporal properties of the resul…