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X-ray driven displacive excitation of coherent phonons
Oleg Dogadov, Remi Claude, Christoph Emeis +29
Modulating electron-phonon coupling offers a route to control structural displacements and tune material functionality. Valence-to-conduction band transitions, however, provide lim…
Ultrafast excitation of Bloch plasmon polaritons in hyperbolic metamaterials with an extreme ultra-violet transient grating
Tlek Tapani, Hannes Kempf, Matteo Pancaldi +14
Manipulating materials properties with light drives advances in materials science and photonics. Hyperbolic metamaterials are promising candidates as next-generation quantum optica…
Spin waves excited by hard x-ray transient gratings
Peter R. Miedaner, Alexei A. Maznev, Mykola Biednov +49
Recent progress in ultrafast x-ray sources helped establish x-rays as an important tool for probing lattice and magnetic dynamics initiated by femtosecond optical pulses. Here, we…
Femtosecond self-diffraction as a measure of the nonlinear response spectrum
Luca Assogna, Giovanna Salvitti, Matteo Silvestri +11
Self diffraction is a four-wave mixing process proportional to the square modulus of third-order nonlinearity susceptibility , which is related to the material's electroni…
Resonant Self-Diffraction of Femtosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses in Cobalt
Alexei A. Maznev, Wonseok Lee, Scott K. Cushing +14
Self-diffraction is a non-collinear four-wave mixing technique well-known in optics. We explore self-diffraction in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) range, taking advantage of intense…
A New Route for the Determination of Protein Structure and Function
S. H. Mejias, A. L. Cortajarena, R. Mincigrucci +2
Understanding complex biological macromolecules, especially proteins, is vital for grasping their diverse chemical functions with direct impact in biology and pharmacology. While t…
Impact of a monolayer on the nanoscale thermoelastic response of silicon heterostructures
Davide Soranzio, Denny Puntel, Manuel Tuniz +18
Understanding the thermoelastic response of a nanostructure is crucial for the choice of materials and interfaces in electronic devices with improved and tailored transport propert…
Structured illumination microscopy with extreme ultraviolet pulses
R. Mincigrucci, E. Paltanin, J. -S. Pelli-Cresi +13
The relentless pursuit of understanding matter at ever-finer scales has pushed optical microscopy to surpass the diffraction limit and produced the super-resolution microscopy whic…
X-ray Circular Dichroism measured by cross-polarization X-ray Transient Grating
Jeremy R. Rouxel, Riccardo Mincigrucci, Danny Fainozzi +1
Measuring natural circular dichroism in the X-ray regime to extract stereochemical information from chiral molecules in solution remains a challenge. This is primarily due to techn…
High throughput interactome determination via sulfur anomalous scattering
Mattia Miotto, Edoardo Milanetti, Riccardo Mincigrucci +2
We propose a novel approach to detect the binding between proteins making use of the anomalous diffraction of natively present heavy elements inside the molecule 3D structure. In p…
A high-efficiency programmable modulator for extreme ultraviolet light with nm feature size based on an electronic phase transition
Igor Vaskivskyi, Anze Mraz, Rok Venturini +11
The absence of efficient light modulators for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray photons significantly limits their real-life application, particularly when even slight complexity…
Transient grating spectroscopy on a DyCo thin film with femtosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses
Victor Ukleev, Ludmila Leroy, Riccardo Mincigrucci +11
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are excited by femtosecond extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient gratings (TGs) in a room-temperature ferrimagnetic DyCo alloy. TGs are generated by…
Nanoscale transient polarization gratings
Laura Foglia, Björn Wehinger, Giovanni Perosa +24
We present the generation of transient polarization gratings at the nanoscale, achieved using a tailored accelerator configuration of the FERMI free electron laser. We demonstrate…
Stimulated Brillouin scattering at 1 nm-1 wavevector by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
Danny Fainozzi, Laura Foglia, Riccardo Mincigrucci +4
We crossed two femtosecond extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pulses in a beta - Ga2O3 (001) single crystal to create transient gratings (TG) of light intensity with sub-100 nm spatial peri…
FEL stochastic spectroscopy revealing silicon bond softening dynamics
Dario De Angelis, Emiliano Principi, Filippo Bencivenga +20
Time-resolved X-ray Emission/Absorption Spectroscopy (Tr-XES/XAS) is an informative experimental tool sensitive to electronic dynamics in materials, widely exploited in diverse res…
Three-dimensional coherent diffraction snapshot imaging using extreme ultraviolet radiation from a free electron laser
Danny Fainozzi, Matteo Ippoliti, Fulvio Billè +14
The possibility to obtain a three-dimensional representation of a single object with sub-m resolution is crucial in many fields, from material science to clinical diagnostics. T…
Extreme ultraviolet transient gratings: A tool for nanoscale photoacoustics
L. Foglia, R. Mincigrucci, A. A. Maznev +23
Collective lattice dynamics determine essential aspects of condensed matter, such as elastic and thermal properties. These exhibit strong dependence on the length-scale, reflecting…
All-optical switching on the nanometer scale excited and probed with femtosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses
Kelvin Yao, Felix Steinbach, Martin Borchert +13
Ultrafast control of magnetization on the nanometer length scale, in particular all-optical switching, is key to putting ultrafast magnetism on the path towards future technologica…
Ultrafast dynamics in (TaSe)I triggered by valence and core-level excitation
Wibke Bronsch, Manuel Tuniz, Giuseppe Crupi +16
In this work, we study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the paradigmatic quasi-one-dimensional material (TaSe)I, that exhibits a transition into an incommensurate CDW pha…
Saturable absorption of free-electron laser radiation by graphite near the carbon K-edge
Lars Hoffmann, Sasawat Jamnuch, Craig P. Schwartz +11
The interaction of intense light with matter gives rise to competing nonlinear responses that can dynamically change material properties. Prominent examples are saturable absorptio…
Superradiant Thomson scattering from graphite in the extreme ultraviolet
C. Fasolato, E. Stellino, E. Principi +6
We study the Thomson scattering from highly oriented pyrolitic graphite excited by the extreme ultraviolet, coherent pulses of FERMI free electron laser (FEL). An apparent nonlinea…
Non-linear self-driven spectral tuning of Extreme Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses in monoatomic materials
Carino Ferrante, Emiliano Principi, Andrea Marini +9
Self-action nonlinearity is a key aspect -- either as a foundational element or a detrimental factor -- of several optical spectroscopies and photonic devices. Supercontinuum gener…
Hard X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy on Bismuth Germanate
Jeremy R. Rouxel, Danny Fainozzi, Roman Mankowsky +44
Optical-domain Transient Grating (TG) spectroscopy is a versatile background-free four-wave-mixing technique used to probe vibrational, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom i…
Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of ibuprofen dimer vibrations
R. Mincigrucci, Jeremy Rouxel, Barbara Rossi +19
In chemistry, biology and materials science, the ability to access interatomic interactions and their dynamical evolution has become possible with the advent of femtosecond lasers.…