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of ultrafast lasers, DPSS lasers and solid state laser sources for scientific and industrial applications.
Another novelty of this work is the application
of ultrafast lasers to shape the geometry of the particles and refine their properties.
The team borrowed an idea from Chang's earlier innovative work in the area
of ultrafast lasers.
He entered City College of New York in Manhattan as an engineering major and soon found a mentor, Robert Alfano, inventor
of the ultrafast laser.
The team placed two diamonds in front
of an ultrafast laser, which zapped them with a pulse of light that lasted 100 femtoseconds (or 10 - 13 seconds).
«Nonlinear stage - scanning confocal microscopy is critical because it allows us to rapidly measure the nonlinear emission from thousands of different nanostructures while minimizing the potential systematic errors, such as intensity or beam pointing variations, often associated with tuning the wavelength
of an ultrafast laser,» O'Brien says.
Not exact matches
Active cooling
of pulse compression diffraction gratings for high energy, high average power
ultrafast lasers
Using an
ultrafast, ultraprecise ultraviolet
laser, a team
of physicists and biologists at Vanderbilt University has taken an important step toward understanding the nature
of these trigger signals.
This novel, less invasive way
of detecting disease using light salient properties was employed for the first time in 1991 to identify a fingerprint for cancer in tissue by a team led by Robert Alfano, a Distinguished Professor
of Science and Engineering at The City College
of New York, and director
of The Institute for
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and
Lasers (IUSL)
of the City University
of New York at City College.
This type
of manipulation requires a powerful light source such as an
ultrafast laser and would last for only a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth
of a second.
«We have captured the first images
of an ensemble
of isolated molecules with an X-ray
laser,» said DESY scientist Küpper, who is also a professor at the University
of Hamburg and a member
of the Hamburg Centre for
Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) cluster
of excellence.
Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision — trillionths
of a billionth
of a second
In a combined experimental and theoretical study on
ultrafast excitation
of atoms in intense short pulse
laser fields scientists
of the Max Born Institute succeeded to show that the prevailing and seemingly disparate intuitive pictures usually used to describe interaction
of atoms with intense
laser fields can be ascribed to a single nonlinear process.
As described in a paper just published in the Nature partner journal npj Quantum Materials, the team developed an «
ultrafast electron diffraction» system — a new
laser - driven imaging technique and the first
of its kind in the world — to capture the subtle atomic - scale lattice distortions.
And in the longer term, they could lead to bright,
ultrafast, short - wavelength
lasers that are much more compact, and perhaps even electronic devices that operate millions
of times faster than current technology, says David Reis, a co-author
of the report and deputy director
of the Stanford PULSE Institute, a joint institute
of SLAC and Stanford.
This distinction makes the camera particularly apt for imaging
ultrafast, non-repetitive phenomena such as a single
laser pulse or the short - lived, intermediate states
of a biochemical reaction.
Using the Washington University technique, called compressed
ultrafast photography (CUP), Wang and his colleagues have made movies
of the images they took with single
laser shots
of four physical phenomena:
laser pulse reflection, refraction, faster - than light propagation
of what is called non-information, and photon racing in two media.
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«By using
ultrafast lasers, which are very intense but very short in duration (
of the order
of a billion trillion flashes per second), we have realized a world record in optical quality, where all the obtained shaped particles behave like nano - sized clones,» explains Andrés Guerrero Martínez, researcher
of the Ramón y Cajal Program at the Faculty
of Chemical Sciences
of the UCM.
This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team
of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader
of the
Ultrafast Nanophotonics group in the Department
of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute
of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute
of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR) in Milan, the Institute
of Physics at the University
of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center for Free - Electron
Laser Science (CFEL) and the University
of Hamburg.
HZB - scientist Emad Aziz, who leads the Joint lab between HZB and Freie Universität Berlin, has developed and installed a new tool to investigate
ultrafast dynamics in solutions and at interfaces with the use
of ultrashort
laser pulses.
«This technology allows for the labeling
of just one circulating pathological cell among billions
of other normal blood cells by
ultrafast changing color
of photosensitive proteins inside the cell in response to
laser light,» explains Dr. Galanzha.
Using
ultrafast lasers, they found that the interaction between the sun's energy and the chlorophyll molecules in a bacterium relies on a piece
of quantum mechanical weirdness known as superposition, where a single photon's energy can temporarily be in many different states at once.
Although the members
of the
ultrafast community often measured the spectrum
of their mode - locked
lasers, they rarely did so with sufficient resolution to observe the underlying comb spectrum; instead the lines would blend together and look like a continuous band
of frequencies.
Converging Disciplines For most
of the past 40 years,
ultrafast -
laser researchers — those who focus on making and using the shortest pulses — largely ignored the pulse phase and the theoretical comblike spectrum
of an ideal series
of pulses.
Using
ultrafast laser pulses that speed up the data recording process, Caltech researchers adopted a novel technique,
ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC), to visualize directly in four dimensions the changing atomic configurations
of the materials undergoing the phase changes.
Ray
of Light: A new generation
of ultrafast X-ray
lasers is redefining the field
of X-ray crystallography, revealing never - before - seen features and dynamic processes.
The research «represents a benchmark contribution» to the development
of liquid - cooled computers and will pave the way for new materials applications created by
ultrafast lasers, says physicist Costas Fotakis, director
of the Institute
of Electronic Structure and
Laser in Heraklion, Greece.
In the future,
ultrafast laser crystallography promises to illuminate a broad range
of biomolecules, from light sensitive photoreceptors to other vital proteins.
X-ray free - electron
lasers generate flashes
of X-ray light short and intense enough to make movies
of chemical reactions and other
ultrafast phenomena, but the electrons must have a very tight energy spread to generate the coherent X-rays necessary for a clear picture.
An international team
of scientists is getting closer to the answer thanks to unprecedented, atomic - scale images
of a protein complex found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria captured by
ultrafast X-ray
lasers.
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There are tradeoffs in using X-rays vs. electrons to study
ultrafast processes at ultrasmall scales, he noted, though «even if the capabilities are similar, it's worth pursuing» because
of the smaller size and lesser cost
of machines like APEX and HiRES compared to X-ray free - electron
lasers.
The workshop will bring together BES funded scientists that «own'these key problems in solar energy conversion with the early adopters
of ultrafast X-ray
laser science.»
These opportunities include using
ultrafast X-ray sources to extract time - dependent structural information from proteins; and revolutionary possibilities created by X-ray Free Electron
Laser radiation for an entirely new regime
of pre-damage serial femtosecond crystallography.
These opportunities include the use
of short - pulsed X-ray sources for extracting time - dependent structural information from proteins; and the revolutionary new possibilities created by X-ray Free Electron
Lasers, which combine
ultrafast X-ray pulses with high brilliance focussing capabilities to create an entirely new regime
of pre-damage time - resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on unprecedented time - scales.
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laser facility for measurement
of ultrafast kinetics
of chemical phenomenon at liquid and air surfaces.