Publications - JRA

• JRA 1: ALADIN
• JRA 2: HAPPIE
• JRA 3: LAPTECH
• JRA 4: OPTBIO
• JRA 5: SFINX

Publications JRA 1 ALADIN:

   List of publications (submitted, in press or printed)

   2010

• P. Cancio et al., Frontier laser spectrometers for next generation environmental sensors, submitted to Applied Physics B
• I.C. Edmond Turcu et al., Ultrafast science and development at the Artemis facility, submitted to SPIE proceedings of Micro- to Nano-Photonics II- ROMOPTO 2009 (2010)
• C. Fourcade Dutin et al., Post-compression of high-energy femtosecond pulses using gas ionisation, Optics letters 35, 253 (2010)
• D. Gauthier et al., Single-shot femtosecond X-ray holography using extended references, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010)
• C. Gohle et al., XUV frequency comb metrology, submitted for publication
• S. Haessler et al., Attosecond imaging of molecular electronic wavepackets, Nat. Phys. 6, 200 (2010)
• D. Irimia et al., Toward elucidating the mechanism of femtosecond pulse shaping control in polyatomic photodynamics by velocity map photoelectron and ion imaging, submitted for publication
• I. Liontos et al., Ramsey spectroscopy of bound atomic states with extreme ultraviolet laser harmonics, Opt. Lett., 35, 6, 832 (2010)
• Pirri et al., Perspectives of Ramsey schemes based on high-order harmonics for high-resolution XUV spectroscopy, Laser Physics, to appear (2010)
• M. Schultze et al., Delay in Photoemission – the problem of time Zero, submitted for publication (2010)
• T. Siegel et al., High harmonic emission from a superposition of multiple unrelated frequency fields, Optics Express, 18, 7, 6853 (2010)
• R. Torres et al., Extension of high harmonic spectroscopy in molecules by a 1300 nm laser field, Optics Express, 18, 3174 (2010)
• R. Torres, J. Marangos et al, Revealing molecular structure and dynamics through high harmonic generation driven by mid-IR fields, submitted to Physical Review A

   2009

• S. Bartalini et al., Frequency metrology with quantum cascade lasers, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices VI, SPIE Proceedings, 7222, 72220C (2009)
• S. Bartalini et al, Quantum cascade lasers linked to optical frequency comb synthesizers: a new IR metrological tool, 3rd EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems, EOS, ISBN 978-3-00-024191-8 (2009)
• J. Boullet et al., High-order harmonic generation at a megahertz-level repetition rate directly driven by an ytterbium-doped-fiber chirped-pulse amplification system, Optics letters 34, 1489 (2009)
• F. Calegari et al., Efficient continuum generation exceeding 200 eV by intense ultrashort two-color driver, Opt. Lett. 34, 3125-3127 (2009)
• J. M. Dahlström et al., Atomic and macroscopic measurements of attosecond pulse trains, Phys. Rev. A 80, 033836 (2009)
• S. Dobosz et al., Internal frequency conversion extreme ultraviolet interferometer using mutual coherence properties of two high-order-harmonic sources, Rev. Sci. Inst. 80, 113102 (2009)
• B. Dromey et al., Diffraction-limited performance and focusing of high harmonics from relativistic plasmas, Nature Physics 5, 146-152 (2009)
• B. Dromey et al., Tunable enhancement of high harmonic emission from laser solid interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 225002 (2009)
• O. Faucher et al, Four-dimensional investigation of the 2nd order volume autocorrelation Technique, Appl. Phys. B 97, 505 (2009)
• T. Fordell et al., Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of a multi-millijoule, regenerative-amplifier-based chirped-pulse amplifier system, Opt. Express 17, 21091 (2009)
• I. Galli et al., Ultra-stable, widely tunable and absolutely linked mid-IR coherent source, Optics Express 17, 9582 (2009)
• X. Gu et al., Generation of carrier-envelope phase-stable 2-cycle 650-μJ pulses at 2.1-μm carrier wavelength , Optics Express 17, 62 (2009)
• S. Haessler et al., Phase-resolved attosecond near-threshold photoionization of molecular nitrogen, Phys. Rev. A 80, 011404(R) (2009)
• S. Haessler et al., Attosecond chirp-encoded dynamics of light nuclei, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42, 134002 (2009)
• X. He et al., Spatial and spectral properties of the high-order harmonic emission in argon for seeding applications, Phys. Rev. A 79, 063829 (2009)
• R. Hörlein et al., Investigation of the XUV emission from the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with solid targets, doctoral thesis, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 324 (2009)
• R. Hörlein et al., Controlling the divergence of high harmonics from solid targets: a route toward coherent harmonic focusing, Eur. Phys. J. D 55, 475-481 (2009)
• D. Irimia et al., A short pulse (7 fs FWHM) and high repetition rate (DC-5 kHz) cantilever piezo valve for pulsed atomic and molecular beams , Rev. Sci. Instruments 80, 113303 (2009)
• P. Maddaloni et al., Optical comb generators for laser frequency measurement, Meas. Sci. Technol. 20, 052001 (2009)
• T. Metzger et al., High repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb:YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification, Optics Letters, 34, 14, 2123 (2009)
• Y. Nomura et al., Attosecond phase locking of harmonics emitted from laser-produced plasmas, Nature Physics 5, 124-128 (2009)
• T. Ozaki et al., High-Intensity High-order Harmonics Generated from Low-Density Plasma, 2nd International Symposium on Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasmas Applied to Science, Industry and Medicine, JAN 19-23, 2009 Kyoto JAPAN, AIP Conference Proceedings 1153, Eds Bolton PR; Bulanov SV; Daido H, 254-262 (2009)
• A. Peralta Conde et al., Realization of time-resolved two-vacuum-ultraviolet-photon ionization, Phys. Rev. A 79 061405(R) (2009)
• L. Poletto et al., Time-delay compensated monochromator for the spectral selection of extreme-ultraviolet high-order laser harmonics, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 123109 (2009)
• F. Quéré et al:, Attosecond and femtosecond metrology for plasma mirrors, Proc. SPIE 7359, 73590E (2009)
• A. Ravasio et al., Single-Shot Diffractive Imaging with a Table-Top Femtosecond Soft X-Ray Laser-Harmonics Source, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028104 (2009)
• M. Razeghi et al., (SPIE, 2009), 72220C. ISBN: 9780819474681
• E. Skantzakis et al., Coherent continuum extreme ultraviolet radiation in the sub-100-nJ range generated by a high-power many-cycle laser field, Opt. Lett. 34, 1732 (2009)
• P. Tzallas et al., Appl. Phys. B doi: 10.1007/s00340-009-3559-z (2009)
• M.O. Vieitez et al., Spectroscopic observation and characterization of H+H- heavy Rydberg states, J. Phys. Chem. A 113, (2009)
• C. Vozzi et al., High order harmonic generation by a CEP-stabilized IR parametric source in single and two-color schemes, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033842 (2009)
• T. Wittmann, et al., Single-Shot Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses, Nature Physics 5, 357-362 (2009)
  published online 19.04.2009, DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1250

   List of conference presentations

   2010

• D. Gauthier et al., Single-shot soft X-ray holography using extended references, Banff Meeting on Structural Dynamics: Ultrafast Dynamics w. X-rays and Electrons, Banff (Canada) Feb. 25th-28th, 2010
• W. Helml et al., HHG mit einem 2.1 µm Treiberlaser zur effizienten Erzeugung von weicher Röntgentstrahlung, DPG Frühjahrstagung der Sektion AMOP, Hannover, March 8-12, 2010
• M. Hofstetter et.al., Design, fabrication and characterization of chirped multilayer soft X-ray mirrors for attosecond pulses in the 100-190 eV photon energy range, invited talk PXRMS2010, Big Sky, Montana, February 14-18, 2010
• U. Kleineberg et.al., Multilayer Bragg-Fresnel optics for nano-focusing of coherent femtosecond soft X-ray pulses in Coherent Diffractive Imaging experiments, contributed talk PXRMS2010, Big Sky, Montana, February 14-18, 2010
• Rottke et al., Poster presentation, DPG Frühjahrstagung Hannover, March 8-12, 2010

   2009

• S. Bartalini et al., Frequency metrology with quantum cascade lasers , S, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices VI, San Jose, USA, 25-28/01/2009
• S. Bartalini et al., Towards metrological-level optical sensors for environmental monitoring, Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research (FLAIR 2009), Grainau, Germany, 06-11/09/2009. Book of abstracts, p. 34
• S. Borri et al., Comb-referenced spectroscopy with quantum cascade lasers, Poster presentation, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CLEO/Europe 2009, Munich, Germany, 14-19/06/2009
• S. Bartalini et al., Frequency noise analysis of QCLs for improving precision in comb-referenced spectroscopy, 21st Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS 2009), Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, 31/08-04/09/2009. Book of abstracts, pp. 159-160
• S. Bartalini et al., Quantum cascade lasers linked to optical frequency comb synthesizers: a new IR metrological tool, 3rd EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems (OMS 2009), Capri, Italy, 27-30/09/2009
• E. Constant (invited), High order harmonic generation at MHz repetition rate with diode pumped Yb based fiber laser, UFO/HFSW 2009
• T. Fordell et al., Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of a Multi-Millijoule, Regenerative-Amplifier-Based Laser System, 1st Porto Workshop on Sources of Super-intense and Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Porto, 2009
• C. Fourcade-Dutin et al:, High energy post compression using gas ionisation, UFO/HFSW 2009
• I. Galli et al., An ultra-stable, widely tunable and Cs-traceable mid-IR coherent source for high-precision/ sensitivity molecular spectroscopy, Workshop on Moderns Problems of Laser Metrology (MPLM 2009), Lerici, Italy, 19-21/10/2009. Book of abstracts, p. 32
• G. Giusfredi et al., Comb referenced cavity ring-down saturation spectroscopy, 21st Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS 2009), Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, 31/08-04/09/2009. Book of abstracts, pp. 144-145
• S. Haessler et al., Experimental molecular orbital tomography, UltraFast Optics (UFO VII) Arcachon (France) August 31st –September 4th 2009
• S. Haessler et al., Imaging Molecular Orbitals using HHG, The 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Shanghaï, China, 30/08-03/09/09
• W. Helml et al., Generation of intense keV attosecond pulses, Ein Gedi, Israel February 8-13, 2009 Poster at the FRISNO-10
• I. Liontos et al., Ramsey spectroscopy of atomic bound states with extreme ultraviolet laser harmonics, UltraFast Optics (UFO VII) and High Field Short Wavelength (HFSW XIII) Conference, Arcachon, France, 31/8-4/9/2009
• D. Mazzotti et al., Gas sensing with optical frequency combs: from the visible/near-IR region to the mid infrared, DFotonica 2009, Pisa, Italy, 27-29/05/2009
• D. Mazzotti et al., An ultra-stable, widely tunable and Cs-traceable mid-IR coherent source, European Quantum Electronics, Conference (EQEC 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19/06/2009
• E. Mével et al., Generation of isolated attosecond pulses by spatial shaping of a femtosecond laser beam, UFO/HFSW 2009
• A. Pirri et al., Ramsey-Type Spectroscopy in the XUV spectral region, Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science conference (ULIS2009), Frascati, Italy, 24-29/5/2009
• A. Pirri et al., Ramsey spectroscopy with high-order harmonics in the XUV, 8th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’07), Barcelona, Spain, 13-17/7/2009
• Rottke et al., Poster presentation, DPG Frühjahrstagung, Dresden, 22.03.2009 – 27.03.2009
• Rottke et al., 441st Heraeus Seminar on Ultrafast x-ray Methods for Studying Transient Electronic Structure and Nuclear Dynamics, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 28.9.2009 – 1.10.2009
• P. Salières, Experimental tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals using HHG, Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Matter, Ischia, Italy, 30/04-03/05/2009
• P. Salières, Coherent control of attosecond emission from aligned molecules and orbital tomographic imaging, International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), Kalamazoo, USA, 22-28/07/2009
• P. Salières, Imaging orbitals from the attosecond emission of aligned molecules, 2nd International Conference on Attosecond Physics, Manhattan, USA, 28/07-01/08/2009
• P. Salières, Harmoniques d’ordre élevé et impulsions attosecondes, Winter School "Impulsions femtosecondes", Les Houches, France 12-19/01/2009
• P. Salières, High-order harmonic generation and attosecond pulses, Summer School of the Fastquast European Network, Rethymnon, Crete, 25-27/09/2009
• C. Vozzi et al., Phase matching effects in high-order harmonics generated by 1.5-μm few-cycle pulses, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe 2009 (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany June 14-19, 2009

Publications JRA 2 HAPPIE:

• J. Tümmler, R. Jung, H. Stiel, P.V. Nickles, W. Sandner, "High-repetition-rate chirped-pulse-amplification thin-disk laser system with joule-level pulse energy", Opt. Lett. 34, 1378 (2009)
• Wemans J., João C.P., Figueira G., "Evaluation of hybrid ytterbium-neodymium laser amplification at 1053 nm", App. Phys. B: Lasers and Optics (submitted, Dec. 2009)
• João C.P., Wemans J., Figueira G., "Numerical model for a hybrid Yb/Nd laser chain at 1053 nm", AIP Conf. Proc. Ser. (submitted)
• João C.P., Wemans J. and Figueira G., "Numerical model for a hybrid Yb/Nd laser chain at 1053 nm", Light at Extreme Intensities, Brasov (Romania), October 2009: (poster)
• D. Albach, J.–C. Chanteloup and G. le Touzé, "Influence of ASE on the gain distribution in large size, high gain Yb3+:YAG slabs", Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 5, p3792 (2009)
• Y. Zaouter et al., “Stretcher-free high energy nonlinear amplification of fs pulses in rod-type fibers”, Fiber and Int. Optics, 27, 467, (2008)
• Y. Zaouter et al., “Transform-limited 100 µJ, 340 MW pulses from a nonlinear-fiber chirped-pulse amplifier using a mismatched grating stretcher–compressor”, Opt. Lett. 33, No. 13, 1527, (2008)
• G. Mennerat et al., CPDA1, CLEO2008 & MB26, ASSP2009
• Ynxin Tang et al., "Novel ultra broadband front-end system for Vulcan 10 PW OPCPA project", ASSP 2010, San Diego CA, USA – 31 Jan. 2010
• V. Pyragaite et al., "Parametric amplification of chirped optical pulses under pump depletion", Opt. Comm. 283, 1144–1151 (2010)
• R. Antipenkov et al., "Generation of ultra-broadband pulses in 512 nm pumped fs NOPA setup", Conf. “Northern Optics 2009”, Vilnius (2009), P1-14
• J. Adamonis et al., "Picosecond Nd:YAG amplification system for pumping of high energy OPCPA", Conf. “ Northern Optics 2009”, Vilnius (2009), P1-15
• M. Merő, G. Kurdi, Á. Sípos, K. Osvay, "Generation of High-Power Fs Pulses Near 532 nm", CLEO-Europe/ EQEC 2009, paper CG1.4, Munich, Germany
• M. Merő, G. Kurdi, Á. Sípos, K. Osvay, "Generation of Energetic Fs Green Pulses Based on an OPCPA - SFG Scheme", Light at Extreme Intensities LEI’ 09, Poster 40, Brasov, Romania
• M. Merő, A. Sipos, G. Kurdi, and K. Osvay, "Broadband sum frequency mixing between the signal and idler output of a high-power optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier", Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics (UFNO) 2009, Burgas, Bulgaria
• O.D. Mücke et Al., Scalable Yb-MOPA-driven carrier-envelope phase-stable few-cycle parametric amplifier at 1.5 μm, Opt. Lett. 34, 118 (2009)
• O.D. Mücke et Al., Self-compression of millijoule 1.5 μm pulses, Opt. Lett. 34, 2498 (2009)
• O.D. Mücke et Al., Multimillijoule Optically Synchronized and Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Stable Chirped Parametric Amplification at 1.5 μm, Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, P. Corkum ed., p.864 (Springer, Berlin, 2009)
• A. Fernández et Al., Broadly tunable carrier envelope phase stable optical parametric amplifier pumped by a monolithic ytterbium fiber amplifier, Opt. Lett. 34, 2799 (2009)
• O.D. Mücke et Al., Efficient 4-Fold Self-Compression of 1.5-mJ Infrared Pulses to 19.8 fs, Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics 2009 Conf., Burgas, Bulgaria, Sept. 14-18, 2009. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7501 pages 750109-1 - 750109-11
• G. Andriukaitis et Al., Fully phase and amplitude-locked multicolor coherent pulse synthesis from a fs Yb:KGW-driven IR-OPA, post-deadline paper in ASSP 2010, Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2010, San Diego, USA
• S. Ališauskas et Al, 12.5-mJ CEP-stable OPCPA at 1.5 μm, invited, Northern Optics 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania, August 26-28, 2009
• A. Fernandez et Al, Versatile Yb-Fiber-Amplifier-Based CEP-Stable Front-End for OPCPA, talk in CLEO Europe, Munich, Germany, June 14-19, 2009, talk CJ8.2 THU
• A. Fernandez at Al, Broadly Tunable CEP Stable OPA Pumped by a Monolithic Ytterbium Fiber Amplifier, OSA Optics & Photonics Congress (Nonlinear Optics) 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12-17, 2009, talk NWD1
• O.D. Mücke et Al, Efficient 4-Fold Self-Compression of 1.5-mJ Infrared Pulses to 19.8 fs, talk in Conference on Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics UFNO’2009, Burgas, Bulgaria, September 14-18, 2009.
• O.D. Mücke et Al, Self-compression of millijoule pulses from a 1.5 μm OPCPA, Invited, UltraFast Optics and High Field Short Wavelength 2009 Conf., Arcachon, France, Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2009
• O.D. Mücke et Al, 12-mJ IR OPCPA Based on Ps Nd Pump and Fs Yb Seed Technologies, invited talk in Middle Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS'2009), Trouville France, June 8-12, 2009, talk Th3
• O.D. Mücke at Al, 10-mJ Infrared Phase-Stable Parametric Amplification Based on a Fs Yb-MOPA, talk in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Denver, CO, February 1-4, 2009, talk WD5
• O.D. Mücke et Al, Infrared Multimillijoule Single-Filament Supercontinuum Generation, talk in CLEO, Baltimore, Maryland, May 31-June 5, 2009, talk JWD6
• O.D. Mücke et Al, Multi-mJ Single-Filament Supercontinuum Generation from IR OPCPA, talk in CLEO Europe, Munich, Germany, June 14-19, 2009, talk CF5.3. Advance Programme, page 115
• O.D. Mücke et Al, Toward Terawatt-Peak-Power Single-Cycle Infrared Fields, talk in Nonlinear Optics 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12-17, 2009, talk NFA3
• L. Zhu et Al, Broadly Tunable CEP-Stable OPA Pumped by a Monolithic Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier, talk in CLEO Pacific Rim 2009, Shanghai, China, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2009, talk MF2-3
• L. Zhu et Al, Monolithic-YDFA Based CEP-Stable OPA with Broad Tunability, 35th European Conference on Optical Communication, Sept. 20- 24, 2009, Austria Center Vienna, Austria, talk 1.1.5.
• T. Balčiūnas et Al, CEP-Locked Three-Color Parametric System for “Perfect Wave” Synthesis, accepted as an oral presentation in CLEO 2010 conference
• T. Balčiūnas et Al, Cycle-engineered coherent steering of electrons with a multicolor optical parametric synthesizer, submitted to Ultrafast Phenomena 2010 conference
• Cardoso L, Pires H, Figueira G, "Increased bandwidth optical parametric amplification of supercontinuum pulses with angular dispersion", Opt. Lett. 34, 1369 (2009)
• Imran T, and Figueira G, "Efficient white-light continuum generation in transparent solid media using ~ 250 fs, 1053 nm laser pulses", LEI Conf., Brasov, Romania, Oct. 2009, Sub. to AIP Conf. Proc. Ser.
• Pires H, Cardoso L, Wemans J, João CP and Figueira G, "OPCPA modelling using YCOB as the non-linear crystal", LEI Conf., Brasov, Romania, Oct. 2009. Sub. to AIP Conf. Proc. Ser.
• Imran T and Figueira G, "Broadband white-light continuum generation in sapphire and fused silica glass by focused 250 fs pulses at 1053 nm", 1st Porto Workshop on Sources of Super-intense and Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Porto, Portugal, Oct. 2009
• O. Ciricosta et Al., "BLISS@CNR-Pisa: a flexible laser for small scale test experiments on fusion oriented physics", AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1209 (2010)
• L. Labate et Al., "BLISS@CNR-Pisa: a flexible laser for small scale test experiments on fusion oriented physics", 2nd Int. Conf. on Ultraintense Laser Interaction Science, Frascati, Italy, 24-29 may 2009
• L. Ionel, D. Ursescu, "Piston Error in Coherent Beam Combination of Ultra-short Pulses", Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI) Conference, October 16 - 21, 2009, Brasov, Romania
• L. Ionel, D. Ursescu, "Spatial and Temporal Description of Ultra-short Pulses in Tightly Focused Beams", Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI) Conference, October 16 - 21, 2009, Brasov, Romania
• S. Simion, C. Blanaru, D. Ursescu , "High Resolution, Real-Time Interferometer for Coherent Beam Combination", Light at Extreme Intensities Conference, Oct. 16 - 21, 2009, Brasov, Romania
• S. Ališauskas et Al, "Optical parametric amplifier of chirped pulses pumped by two and three beams", Proc. SPIE 7501, 75010B (2009), DOI:10.1117/12.849072
• S. Ališauskas et Al, "Prospects for increasing average power of optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers via multi-beam pumping", Opt. Comm. 283, 469-473 (2010)
• G. Mennerat et al., "Modelling and Characterization of High-Efficiency, High Power Cascaded Intracavity Optical Parametric Oscillators in the Mid-Infrared", ASSP 2007, Vancouver, Canada

Publications JRA 3 LAPTECH:

   List of publications (submitted, in press or printed)

• « A High Resolution, Broad Energy Acceptance Spectrometer for Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments » C. M. S. Sears, S. Benavides Cuevas, L. Veisz, U. Schramm, K. Schmid, A. Buck, D. Habs, and F. Krausz, Submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments
• « Absolute response of Fuji imaging plate detectors to picosecond-electron bunches» K. Zeil, S. D. Kraft, A. Jochmann, F. Kroll, W. Jahr, U. Schramm, L. Karsch, J. Pawelke, B. Hidding, G. Pretzler, Review of Scientific Instruments 81, 013307 (2010)
• « Absolute charge calibration of scintillating screens for relativistic electron detection » A. Buck, K. Zeil, A. Popp, K. Schmid, A. Jochmann, S. D. Kraft, B. Hidding, T. Kudyakov, C. M. S. Sears, L. Veisz, S. Karsch, R. Sauerbrey, T. Cowan, F. Krausz, U. Schramm, Review of Scientific Instruments 81, 033301 (2010)
• « Cold injection for electron wakefield acceleration » X. Davoine, A. Beck, A. Lifschitz, V. Malka, E. Lefebvre, to be published in NJP
• « A Multidimensional Theory for Electron Trapping by Plasma Wake Generated in the Bubble Regime» I. Kostyukov, E. Nerush, A. Pukhov, and V. Seredov, New Journal of Physics, accepted (2010)
• « Few-femtosecond laser-accelerated electron bunches » O. Lundh, C. Rechatin, J. Lim, L. Ammoura, A. Ben-Ismaïl, X. Davoine, G. Gallot, J.-P. Goddet, E. Lefebvre, V.Malka, J. Faure, submitted to Nautre Physics (2010)
• « Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames » S. F. Martins, R. A. Fonseca, W. Lu, W. B. Mori & L. O. Silva, Nature Physics, in press (2010)
• « Numerical modelling of 10 centimetre long multi-GeV laser wakefield accelerator driven by a self-guided petawatt pulse» S. Y. Kalmykov, S. A. Yi, A. Beck, A. F. Lifschitz, X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, A. Pukhov, V. Khudik, G. Shvets, S. A. Reed, P. Dong, X. Wang, D. Du, S. Bedacht, R. Zgadzaj, W. Henderson, A. Bernstein, G. Dyer, M. Martinez, E. Gaul, T. Ditmire, and M. C. Downer, to be published in New Journal of Physics (2010)
• « Magnetic control of particle-injection in plasma accelerators » J. Vieira, S. F. Martins, V. B. Pathak, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva, submitted for publication (2010)
• « Onset of self-steepening of intense laser pulses in plasmas » J. Vieira, F. Fiuza, L. O. Silva, M. Tzoufras, W.B. Mori, submitted for publication (2009)
• S.M. Wiggins, M.P. Anania, E. Brunetti, et al., “Progress towards a laser plasma wakefield driven compact X-ray free-electron laser”, SPIE Newsroom DOI: 10.1117/2.1200903.1559 (2009)
• S. M. Wiggins, R. P. Shanks, M. R. Islam, et al., “Ultra-low energy spread electron beams from a laser plasma wakefield accelerator”, submitted for publication in 2009
• E. Brunetti, R. P. Shanks, G. G. Manahan, et al. “Low emittance relativistic electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator”, submitted for publication in 2010
• R. P. Shanks, M. P. Anania, C. Aniculaesei, et al., “High-brightness high-energy femtosecond duration electron bunches from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator”, submitted for publication in 2010

   List of conference presentations

• « Few-femtosecond laser-accelerated electron bunches » O. Lundh, C. Rechatin, J. Lim, L. Ammoura, A. Ben-Ismaïl, X. Davoine, G. Gallot, J.-P. Goddet, E. Lefebvre, V.Malka, J. Faure, Frontiers in Intense Laser-Matter Interaction Theory, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, March 1-3 (2010)
• « Boosted frame simulations » F. Martins, Plenary talk at AAC 2010, Annapolis, MD, June 2010
• « Progress in PIC simulations of relativistic plasmas» A. Pukhov, invited talk, International Conference on Numerical Simulations in Plasmas (ICNSP) in Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9 (2009)
• « Novel simulation approaches for laser plasma accelerators and fast ignition » L. O. Silva, Invited talk, Frontiers in Intense Laser-Matter Interaction Theory, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, March 1-3 (2010)
• « Light Wave Synthesizer 20 (LWS-20): A Multi-TW (16 TW) Few-cycle (7.7 fs) Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier » L. Veisz, D. Herrmann, R. Tautz, F. Tavella, A. Buck, J. Mikhailova, C. Sears, K. Schmid, V. Pervak, M. Scharrer, P. Russell, and F. Krausz, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2009), Baltimore, USA, May 31- June 5 (2009)
• « A few-cycle 16 TW optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system and its application to electron acceleration » L. Veisz, D. Herrmann, R. Tautz, K. Schmid, A. Buck, C. Sears, F. Tavella, V. Pervak, J. Mikhailova, S. Benavides, B. Hidding, U. Schramm, M. Geissler, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, D. Habs, and F. Krausz, (invited), Ultrafast Optics and High Field Short Wavelength (UFO/HFSW 2009), Arcachon, France, August 31 - September 4 (2009)
• « A few-cycle multi-10 TW OPCPA system and its applications » L. Veisz, R. Tautz, D. Herrmann, A. Buck, K. Schmid, C. Sears, J. Mikhailova, and F. Krausz, (invited), Laser Optics Berlin (LOB 2010), Berlin, Germany, March 22-24, 2010
• D. A. Jaroszynski, “Electron trapping, acceleration and betatron emission in a laser-plasma accelerator”, SPIE Europe Optics and Optoelectronics Conference, Prague, April 2009
• D. A. Jaroszynski et al., invited talk “The status of the ALPHA-X project” at Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2009, Kardamili, June 2009
• D. A. Jaroszynski, invited talk “X and gamma ray source using laser plasma wakefield accelerators” at Free Electron Laser Conference 2009, Liverpool, August 2009
• D.A. Jaroszynski, invited talk “Towards a brilliant femtosecond gamma ray source based on a laser plasma wakefield accelerator: A new paradigm of hard X-ray sources”, Gordon Conference on X-ray Science, Maine, Aug 2009
• D.A. Jaroszynski et al., invited lecture “Radiation sources based on laser plasma accelerators: A new paradigm of compact free-electron lasers and hard X-ray sources”, Asian Summer School, ASS&S, Taipei, August 2009

Publications JRA 4 OPTBIO:

• A.L. Allegra Mascaro, L. Sacconi, and F.S. Pavone
  "Multi-photon nanosurgery in live brain"
  Frontiers in Neuroenergetics, submitted
• R. Cicchi, L. Sacconi, F. S. Pavone
  Chapter: "Nonlinear Imaging of Tissues", in: Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science, V. Tuchin editor
  CRC press, (January 2010)
• F. Claeyssens et al., Langmuir 25, 3219-3223 (2009)
• Chorvat D. and Chorvatova A., Laser Physics Letters, 6(3), 2009, 175-193
• V. Dinca et al., International Journal of Nanotechnology, 6, 88 (2009)
  
• M. Farsari, B.N. Chichkov, Nature Photonics 3, 450 (2009)
  
• G. Filippidis et al., Laser Physics 19, 1475 (2009)
• G. Filippidis et al., Micron 40, 876 (2009)
  
• G. Filippidis et al., Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 395, 2161 (2009)
  
• P. Ghenuche et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116805 (2008)
  
• P. Gross et al.
  "Methods in Enzymology: Single Molecule Methods"
  Walter, N (Ed.), Elsevier. In Press
  
• E.J. Gualda et al., Journal of Microscopy 232, 270 (2009)
  
• E.J. Gualda et al., Applied Spectroscopy 63, 280 (2009)
• M. L. Juan et al., Nature Phys. 5, 915-919 (2009)
  
• M. Malinauskas et al., J. Opt. 12, 035204 (2010)
  
• M. Malinauskas et al.
  "3D artificial polymeric scaffolds for regenerative medicine fabricated by femtosecond laser"
  to be published (2010)
• M. Mathew et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 073701 (2009)
• M. Mathew et al., Opt. Express, 18, 364-377 (2010)
  
• V. Nucciotti et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, in press
• A. Ovsianikov et al., Optics Express, 17, 2143 (2009)
• E. Papadopoulou et al.
  "Silicon Scaffolds Promoting 3D Neuronal Web of Cytoplasmic Processes"
  Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, Vol. 15 (2009) doi:10.1089/ten.tec.2009.0216
  
• S. Psilodimitrakopoulos et al.
  “Estimating the helical pitch angle of amylopectin in starch using polarization second harmonic generation microscopy”
  In press J. Opt. (2010)
  
• S. Psilodimitrakopoulos et al., Opt. Express, 17, 14418-14425 (2009)
  
• S. Psilodimitrakopoulos et al., Opt. Express 17, 10168-10176 (2009)
  
• S. Psilodimitrakopoulos et al., J. Biomed. Opt. 14, 014001 (2009)
• A. Ranella et al., Acta Biomater (2010), doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2010.01.016
  
• D. Rutkauskas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(39):16627-32 (2009). Epub 2009 Sep 21
  
• M. Simantiraki et al., J. of Innovative Optical Health Science 2, 1-11 (2009)
• J. Spigulis, A. Lihachev, and R. Erts, Appl. Opt., v. 48, No. 10, pp. D163-D168, 2009
  
• J. Spigulis, A. Lihachev, and R. Erts
  The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, v. 4, Iss. 6, 2009.
  http://www.opticsinfobase.org/VJBO/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-48-10-D163
• E. Stratakis et al., Progress in Quantum Electronics 33, 127-164 (2009)
• T. Svensson et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 063105 (2009)
• T. Taminiau, F. Stefani and N. van Hulst
  "Nanorod optical antennas for dipolar transitions"
  submitted to Physical Review Letters (Jan 2010)M. Towrie et al., Rev Sci Instrum. 80 (10),103704
  
• J. J. W. A. van Loon et al., J. Microsc. 233, 234-243 (2009)
  
• J. van Mamerenet al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2009. 106(43): p. 18231-6
  
• J. van Mameren et al., Nature, 2009. 457(7230): p. 745-8
  
• G. Volpe et al., Nano Lett. 9, 3608 (2009)
  
• S. Witte et al.,
  "Label-free in vivo brain imaging and targeted patch-clamp recording with third-harmonic generation microscopy"
  
• S. Witte, M. Baclayon, E. J. Peterman, R. F. Toonen, H. D. Mansvelder, and M. L. Groot ,
  "Single-shot two-dimensional full-range optical coherence tomography achieved by dispersion control"
  Optics Express, 17 (14): 11335-11349 2009
  doi:10.1364/OE.17.011335
  

Publications JRA 5 SFINX:

• D. Zimmer, B. Zielbauer, M. Pittman, O. Guilbaud, J. Habib, S. Kazamias, D. Ros, V. Bagnoud, T. Kuehl, "Optimization of a table-top high repetition rate soft x-ray laser pumped in double-pulse single beam grazing incidence," Opt. Lett. 35, 450 (2010)
•  D. Zimmer, D. Ros, O. Guilbaud, J. Habib, S. Kazamias, B. Zielbauer, V. Bagnoud, B. Ecker, D. C. Hochhaus, B. Aurand, P. Neumayer, T. Kuehl, "Short-wavelength soft x-ray laser pumped in double-pulse single-beam non-normal incidence," Phys. Rev. A 82, 013803 (2010)

• G J Tallents and I Al’miev 2009 Proc. SPIE 7451 30 ‘Temporal and frequency output of seeded and unseeded x-ray lasers’
• D W Whittaker, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett, Accepted for publication 2010. “Reduced Extreme Ultra-Violet Pulse Durations Resulting from High-Harmonic Seeding of Suitably Tailored Plasma Gain Media
• D. Ursescu, L. Ionel, - J. Optoel. Adv. Materials-Vol. 12 ISS.1-2010– p. 48-51, "Gain and Ionization Dynamics in transient, collisionaly excited x-ray lasers"
• International Conference "Light at Extreme Intensities - Scientific opportunities and technological issues of the Extreme Light Infrastructure-LEI 2009 -Brasov, Romania “ Isotopes and Bandwidth of Plasma X-Ray Lasers” author D.Ursescu (poster)
• "Gain and ionization dynamics in transient, collisionaly excited x-ray laser" – poster - Intl. Conference "Micro- to Nano-Photonics II – ROMOPTO 2009", Sibiu, Romania, Aug. 31 - Sept. 3, 2009 - D. Ursescu, L Ionel
• Plasma Density-gradient Measurements Using XRL Wave-front Distortion, J.Nejdl, M. Kozlová, Institute of Physics/ PALS Centre, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic, SPIE, San Diego, 2009
• Measuring the electron density gradients of dense plasmas by X-ray laser deflectometry, J. Nejdl, M. Kozlová, Institute of Physics, Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic HiPER fellow meeting, 4 March, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010, (It won the first prize for the best poster on fellow meeting) and it is submitted to ICXRL 2010 at Kwangju
• G. J. Tallents, N Booth, M H Edwards, L M R Gartside, D S Whittaker, Z Zhai, B Rus, T Mocek, M Kozlova, J Polan and P Homer, 2009 High Energy Density Phys., doi:10.1016/j.hedp.2009.03.006 ‘Measurements of opacity and temperature of warm dense matter heated by focused soft X-ray laser irradiation’
• D S Whittaker and G J Tallents 2009 Mon. Note R. Astr. Soc. 400, 1808-1813 ‘Iron opacity predictions under solar interior conditions’
• Stiel, H., J. Tümmler, R. Jung, P.V. Nickles, and W. Sandner, SPIE (2009). 7451: p. 745109-1. “X-ray laser takes the 100 Hz barrier.”
• Kim, H.T., K.A. Janulewicz, C.M. Kim, K.T.K. I. J. K., T.J. Yu, S.K. Lee, H. Stiel, and J. Tümmler, SPIE (2009). 7451: p. 74510W. “Research on the seeding of high-energy harmonic pulse into an x-ray lasing medium.”
• Habib D. et al. “Temporal Coherence and Spectral Line Shape of a GRIP Transient X-Ray Laser”
• X-RAY LASERS 2008, PROCEEDINGS Book Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics, Volume: 130, pp. 115-121 (2009)
• A. Klisnick et al. Proc. of SPIE, Soft X-ray lasers and applications VIII, Vol. 7451, pp 7451OU (2009) “Simulations of ASE and seeded transient X-ray lasers using the COLAX code”
• O.Guilbaud, et al, Accepted in Optics Letters (2010) “Fourier-Limited seeded soft x-ray laser pulse”
• F. Tissandie et al.Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010) “Observation of Spectral Gain Narrowing in a High-Order Harmonic Seeded Soft-X-Ray Amplifier”
• E. Oliva et al, Opt. Lett,, 34, 17, 2009 “Optimization of soft x-ray amplifier by tailoring plasma hydrodynamics”
• J.P. Godet,et al, Opt. Lett., 34, 16, 2438-2440, “Abberration-free laser beam in the soft x-ray range”
• D. Urescu et al, FAIR/SPARC meeting in Lisabon, Portugal (2009)
• D. Urescu et al, COST meeting MP0601 in Smolenice, Slovacia (2009)
• D. Urescu et al, LEI2009 conference in Brasov, Romania
• H. Fiedorowicz, Sympozjum Techniki Laserowej, Szczecin-Świnoujscie, Poland , 21-25.09.2009
• H. Fiedorowicz, LEI Conference, Romania, Oct. 2009
• M. Ribeire et al, submitted to Phys. Rev. A, “Femtosecond coherent pulses in the keV range from inner-shell transitions pumped by a betatron source »