We demonstrate the efficiency of single-cycle attosecond pulses in comparison to multi-cycle attosecond pulses in ion acceleration and magnetic field generation. Using these results we also propose a path to proton–Boron fusion using high energy attosecond pulses....
This method can be used in systems with known linear and nonlinear responses, even when the fluence is not known, making this method ideal for difficult to measure beams such as the high energy, large aperture beams produced in petawatt systems....
Contrarily, at low flux levels and for light ions or electrons, it is likely the bond defects would all recombine before damage overlap occurs. In this case, the relevant threshold energy would be that for Frenkel pair formation. In other words, in systems where metastable topological defects ...
High-energy phase-stable sub-cycle mid-infrared pulses can provide unique opportunities to explore phase-sensitive strong-field light–matter interactions in atoms, molecules and solids. At the mid-infrared wavelength, the Keldysh parameter could be much
19December2007,Revised:14January2008,Accepted:23January2008Publishedonline:21February2008Keywords:Ultrafastlaser;nonlinearfiberoptics;fiberlaser;pulsepropagation;highpulseenergy;solitons;dissipativesolitons;self-similarityPACS:42.55.Wd1.IntroductionThedevelopmentofsourcesofultrashortlightpulseshashadmajorscienti...
shortpulsesresultinginasignificantenergygainofthereflectedradiationduetothemomentumtransferfromflyinglayers.©2009ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved.1.IntroductionThedevelopmentofsourcesofintenseultra-shortelectromag-netic(EM)pulses,X-rays,andevenγ-raysisanimportantpo-tentialapplicationofintenselasermatterinteractions[1]...
A fiber-laser system has been integrated with the latest developments in multi-pass cells to design a laser with a special combination of few-cycle pulses at high pulse energy, average power and repetition rate and with stable carrier envelope phase (CEP) operation....
At a central wavelength of 1030 nm and a repetition rate of 1 MHz it delivers a pulse energy of 190 μJ at a pulse length of 190 fs, resulting in 190 W of average power. This laser is focused into a 200 μm thick Type-I beta-barium-borate (BBO) crystal for second...
Dynamic control of material properties using strong-field, narrowband THz sources has drawn attention because it allows selective manipulation of quantum states on demand by coherent excitation of specific low-energy modes in solids. Yet, the lack of powerful narrowband lasers with frequencies in the ...
energy and terawatt peak power level. We experimentally demonstrate two key soliton effects. First, we observe self-compression to sub-cycle pulses and infer the creation of sub-femtosecond field waveforms—a route to high-power optical attosecond pulse generation. Second, we efficiently generate ...