Publications related to X-ray laser

Numerical Study of the Attosecond Free-Electron Laser Pulse Generation in the Soft X-ray Regime at the SwissFEL

Isolated attosecond pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser are in high demand for attosecond science, which enables the probing of electron dynamics by X-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and single-particle imaging. The aim of this thesis is to simulate attos ...

EPFL2024

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of molecular motion in real-time

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Ultrafast optical-domain spectroscopies allow to monitor in real time the motion of nuclei in molecules. Achieving element-selectivity had to await the advent of time resolved X-ray spectroscopy, which is now commonly carried at X-ray free electron lasers. ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Relation between Inner Structural Dynamics and Ion Dynamics of Laser-Heated Nanoparticles

Christoph Bostedt

When a nanoparticle is irradiated by an intense laser pulse, it turns into a nanoplasma, a transition that is accompanied by many interesting nonequilibrium dynamics. So far, most experiments on nanoplasmas use ion measurements, reflecting the outside dyna ...

American Physical Society2021

Highly efficient THz four-wave mixing in doped silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Third-order non-linearities are important because they allow control over light pulses in ubiquitous high-quality centro-symmetric materials like silicon and silica. Degenerate four-wave mixing provides a direct measure of the third-order non-linear sheet ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Ultrafast Photon-Induced Tunneling Microscopy

Klaus Kern, Yang Luo

Unification of the techniques of ultrafast science and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has the potential of tracking electronic motion in molecules simultaneously in real space and real time. Laser pulses can couple to an STM junction either in the wea ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Hot carrier-mediated avalanche multiphoton photoluminescence from coupled Au–Al nanoantennas

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet

Avalanche multiphoton photoluminescence (AMPL) is observed from coupled Au–Al nanoantennas under intense laser pumping, which shows more than one order of magnitude emission intensity enhancement and distinct spectral features compared with ordinary metall ...

2021

Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Christoph Bostedt, Xiang Li, Andre Al Haddad, Solène Oberli, Siqi Li

Free-electron lasers provide a source of x-ray pulses short enough and intense enough to drive nonlinearities in molecular systems. Impulsive interactions driven by these x-ray pulses provide a way to create and probe valence electron motions with high tem ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

The role of transient resonances for ultra-fast imaging of single sucrose nanoclusters

Christoph Bostedt, Andre Al Haddad

Intense x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses hold great promise for imaging function in nanoscale and biological systems with atomic resolution. So far, however, the spatial resolution obtained from single shot experiments lags averaging static experime ...

Nature Research2020

Towards X-ray transient grating spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Erwan Fabrice Koch, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Christian David

The extension of transient grating spectroscopy to the x-ray regime will create numerous opportunities, ranging from the study of thermal transport in the ballistic regime to charge, spin, and energy transfer processes with atomic spatial and femtosecond t ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Intense Laser Fields

Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo, Giorgio Rossi

Femtosecond laser pulses have opened new frontiers for the study of ultrafast phase transitions and nonequilibrium states of matter. In this Letter, we report on structural dynamics in atomic clusters pumped with intense near-infrared (NIR) pulses into a n ...

2019

Nanosecond electron pulses in the analytical electron microscopy of a fast irreversible chemical reaction

Thomas La Grange

We show how the kinetics of a fast and irreversible chemical reaction in a nanocrystalline material at high temperature can be studied using nanosecond electron pulses in an electron microscope. Infrared laser pulses first heat a nanocrystalline oxide laye ...

Springer2019

Perspective: Opportunities for ultrafast science at SwissFEL

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud

We present the main specifications of the newly constructed Swiss Free Electron Laser, SwissFEL, and explore its potential impact on ultrafast science. In light of recent achievements at current X-ray free electron lasers, we discuss the potential territor ...

2018

Free-electron-laser coherent diffraction images of individual drug-carrying liposome particles in solution

Giorgio Margaritondo, Ying Chen, Ke Peng

Using the excellent performances of a SACLA (RIKEN/HARIMA, Japan) X-ray free electron laser (X-FEL), coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) was used to detect individual liposome particles in water, with or without inserted doxorubicin nanorods. This was possi ...

2018

Generation and measurement of sub-micrometer relativistic electron beams

Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Christian David

The generation of low-emittance electron beams has received significant interest in recent years. Driven by the requirements of X-ray-free electron lasers, the emittance of photocathode injectors has been reduced significantly, with corresponding increase ...

2018

Symmetry breakdown of electron emission in extreme ultraviolet photoionization of argon

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Eugenio Ferrari, David Ferdinand Scholz

Short wavelength free-electron lasers (FELs), providing pulses of ultrahigh photon intensity, have revolutionized spectroscopy on ionic targets. Their exceptional photon flux enables multiple photon absorptions within a single femtosecond pulse, which in t ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Using the optical-klystron effect to increase and measure the intrinsic beam energy spread in free-electron-laser facilities

Eugenio Ferrari, Thomas Schietinger, Sven Reiche

We present a setup based on the optical klystron concept, consisting of two undulator modules separated by a magnetic chicane, that addresses two issues in free-electron-laser (FEL) facilities. On the one hand, it allows increasing the intrinsic energy spr ...

2017

Femtosecond pulse length and arrival time measurement of hard X-Ray FELs

Ishkhan Gorgisyan

The ultra-bright short-pulsed radiation provided by the free electron lasers (FEL) is used for many new discoveries in different fields of science and industry. The advancement of the FEL technologies allows the generation of shorter photon pulses with hig ...

EPFL2016

Femtosecond electron and X-ray source developments for time-resolved applications

Fernando Ardana Lamas

This manuscript summarizes the different technological developments and scientific activities in the field of ultrafast laser and electron physics which I have carried out as part of my PhD thesis. The topics addressed in my thesis range from the developme ...

EPFL2016