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Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science -- April 2012

Volume 11, Issue 4

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ULTRAFAST METHODS AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

    Time-resolved single-shot imaging of femtosecond laser induced filaments using supercontinuum and optical polarigraphy
    Lihe Yan (闫理贺), Xiaofang Wang (王小芳), Jinhai Si (司金海), Shigeki Matsuo (松尾繁樹), Tao Chen (陈涛), Wenjiang Tan (谭文疆), Feng Chen (陈烽), and Xun Hou (侯洵)
    Applied Physics Letters   100, 111107 (2012) (3 pages)   
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    X-ray–optical cross-correlator for gas-phase experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser
    S. Schorb, T. Gorkhover, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, M. R. Bionta, R. N. Coffee, B. Erk, R. Boll, C. Schmidt, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, A. Rouzee, M. Swiggers, S. Carron, J.-C. Castagna, J. D. Bozek, M. Messerschmidt, W. F. Schlotter, and C. Bostedt
    Applied Physics Letters   100, 121107 (2012) (4 pages)   
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    X-ray pulse preserving single-shot optical cross-correlation method for improved experimental temporal resolution
    M. Beye, O. Krupin, G. Hays, A. H. Reid, D. Rupp, S. de Jong, S. Lee, W.-S. Lee, Y.-D. Chuang, R. Coffee, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, A. Föhlisch, M. R. Holmes, A. R. Fry, W. E. White, C. Bostedt, A. O. Scherz, H. A. Durr, and W. F. Schlotter
    Applied Physics Letters   100, 121108 (2012) (4 pages)   
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    Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Comb from Relativistic Electron Spikes
    A. S. Pirozhkov, M. Kando, T. Zh. Esirkepov, P. Gallegos, H. Ahmed, E. N. Ragozin, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, T. Kawachi, A. Sagisaka, J. K. Koga, M. Coury, J. Green, P. Foster, C. Brenner, B. Dromey, D. R. Symes, M. Mori, K. Kawase, T. Kameshima, Y. Fukuda, L. Chen, I. Daito, K. Ogura, Y. Hayashi, H. Kotaki, H. Kiriyama, H. Okada, N. Nishimori, T. Imazono, K. Kondo, T. Kimura, T. Tajima, H. Daido, P. Rajeev, P. McKenna, M. Borghesi, D. Neely, Y. Kato, and S. V. Bulanov
    Physical Review Letters   108, 135004 (2012) (5 pages)   
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    Long lifetime air plasma channel generated by femtosecond laser pulse sequence
    Xiao-Long Liu, Xin Lu, Jing-Long Ma, Liu-Bin Feng, Xu-lei Ge, Yi Zheng, Yu-Tong Li, Li-Ming Chen, Quan-Li Dong, Wei-Min Wang, Zhao-Hua Wang, Hao Teng, Zhi-Yi Wei, and Jie Zhang
    Optics Express   20, 5968-5973 (2012)   
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SOURCES

    A tuneable ultra-compact high-power, ultra-short pulsed, bright gamma-ray source based on bremsstrahlung radiation from laser-plasma accelerated electrons
    S. Cipiccia, S. M. Wiggins, R. P. Shanks, M. R. Islam, G. Vieux, R. C. Issac, E. Brunetti, B. Ersfeld, G. H. Welsh, M. P. Anania, D. Maneuski, N. R. C. Lemos, R. A. Bendoyro, P. P. Rajeev, P. Foster, N. Bourgeois, T. P. A. Ibbotson, P. A. Walker, V. O. Shea, J. M. Dias, and D. A. Jaroszynski
    Journal of Applied Physics   111, 063302 (2012) (8 pages)   
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    High-fidelity, 160 fs, 5 µJ pulses from an integrated Yb-fiber laser system with a fiber stretcher matching a simple grating compressor
    A. Fernández, K. Jespersen, L. Zhu, L. Grüner-Nielsen, A. Baltuška, A. Galvanauskas, and A. J. Verhoef
    Optics Letters   37, 927-929 (2012)   
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    A bright point source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses using biological cells
    M. Krishnamurthy, Sudipta Mondal, Amit D. Lad, Kartik Bane, Saima Ahmed, V. Narayanan, R. Rajeev, Gourab Chatterjee, Prashant Kumar Singh, G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Kundu, and Krishanu Ray
    Optics Express   20, 5754-5761 (2012)   
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CHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

    Air-guided photonic-crystal-fiber pulse-compression delivery of multimegawatt femtosecond laser output for nonlinear-optical imaging and neurosurgery
    Aleksandr A. Lanin, Il'ya V. Fedotov, Dmitrii A. Sidorov-Biryukov, Lyubov V. Doronina-Amitonova, Olga I. Ivashkina, Marina A. Zots, Chi-Kuang Sun, F. Ömer Ilday, Andrei B. Fedotov, Konstantin V. Anokhin, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov
    Applied Physics Letters   100, 101104 (2012) (4 pages)   
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    Biological effectiveness on live cells of laser driven protons at dose rates exceeding 109 Gy/s
    D. Doria, K. F. Kakolee, S. Kar, S. K. Litt, F. Fiorini, H. Ahmed, S. Green, J. C. G. Jeynes, J. Kavanagh, D. Kirby, K. J. Kirkby, C. L. Lewis, M. J. Merchant, G. Nersisyan, R. Prasad, K. M. Prise, G. Schettino, M. Zepf, and M. Borghesi
    AIP Advances   2, 011209 (2012) (6 pages)   
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ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS

    Explosions of Xenon Clusters in Ultraintense Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses from the LCLS Free Electron Laser
    H. Thomas, A. Helal, K. Hoffmann, N. Kandadai, J. Keto, J. Andreasson, B. Iwan, M. Seibert, N. Timneanu, J. Hajdu, M. Adolph, T. Gorkhover, D. Rupp, S. Schorb, T. Möller, G. Doumy, L. F. DiMauro, M. Hoener, B. Murphy, N. Berrah, M. Messerschmidt, J. Bozek, C. Bostedt, and T. Ditmire
    Physical Review Letters   108, 133401 (2012) (5 pages)   
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    Imaging ultrafast molecular dynamics with laser-induced electron diffraction
    Cosmin I. Blaga, Junliang Xu, Anthony D. DiChiara, Emily Sistrunk, Kaikai Zhang, Pierre Agostini, Terry A. Miller, Louis F. DiMauro, and C. D. Lin
    Nature   483, 194-197 (2012)   
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

    Precessional spin-transfer switching in a magnetic tunnel junction with a synthetic antiferromagnetic perpendicular polarizer
    M. Marins de Castro, R. C. Sousa, S. Bandiera, C. Ducruet, A. Chavent, S. Auffret, C. Papusoi, I. L. Prejbeanu, C. Portemont, L. Vila, U. Ebels, B. Rodmacq, and B. Dieny
    Journal of Applied Physics   111, 07C912 (2012) (3 pages)   
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PHOTONICS

    Ultrafast, high resolution, phase contrast imaging of impact response with synchrotron radiation
    B. J. Jensen, S. N. Luo, D. E. Hooks, K. Fezzaa, K. J. Ramos, J. D. Yeager, K. Kwiatkowski, T. Shimada, and D. M. Dattelbaum
    AIP Advances   2, 012170 (2012) (6 pages)   
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    Gold nanoparticles on the surface of soda-lime glass: morphological, linear and nonlinear optical characterization
    E. C. Romani, Douglas Vitoreti, Paula M. P. Gouvêa, P. G. Caldas, R. Prioli, S. Paciornik, Michael Fokine, Arthur M. B. Braga, Anderson S. L. Gomes, and Isabel C. S. Carvalho
    Optics Express   20, 5429-5439 (2012)   
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    Improved NRZ transmission distance at 20 Gbit/s using dual electroabsorption modulated laser
    K. Kechaou, T. Anfray, K. Merghem, C. Aupetit-Berthelemot, G. Aubin, C. Kazmierski, C. Jany, P. Chanclou, and D. Erasme
    Electronics Letters   48, 335-336 (2012)   
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HIGH FIELD PHYSICS

    Trapping induced nonlinear behavior of backward stimulated Raman scattering in multi-speckled laser beams
    L. Yin, B. J. Albright, H. A. Rose, K. J. Bowers, B. Bergen, R. K. Kirkwood, D. E. Hinkel, A. B. Langdon, P. Michel, D. S. Montgomery, and J. L. Kline
    Physics of Plasmas   19, 056304 (2012) (13 pages)   
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    The velocity campaign for ignition on NIF
    D. A. Callahan, N. B. Meezan, S. H. Glenzer, A. J. MacKinnon, L. R. Benedetti, D. K. Bradley, J. R. Celeste, P. M. Celliers, S. N. Dixit, T. Döppner, E. G. Dzentitis, S. Glenn, S. W. Haan, C. A. Haynam, D. G. Hicks, D. E. Hinkel, O. S. Jones, O. L. Landen, R. A. London, A. G. MacPhee, P. A. Michel, J. D. Moody, J. E. Ralph, H. F. Robey, M. D. Rosen, M. B. Schneider, D. J. Strozzi, L. J. Suter, R. P. J. Town, K. Widmann, E. A. Williams, M. J. Edwards, B. J. MacGowan, J. D. Lindl, L. J. Atherton, G. A. Kyrala, J. L. Kline, R. E. Olson, D. Edgell, S. P. Regan, A. Nikroo, H. Wilkins, J. D. Kilkenny, and A. S. Moore
    Physics of Plasmas   19, 056305 (2012) (9 pages)   
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    Hot-spot mix in ignition-scale implosions on the NIF
    S. P. Regan, R. Epstein, B. A. Hammel, L. J. Suter, J. Ralph, H. Scott, M. A. Barrios, D. K. Bradley, D. A. Callahan, C. Cerjan, G. W. Collins, S. N. Dixit, T. Doeppner, M. J. Edwards, D. R. Farley, S. Glenn, S. H. Glenzer, I. E. Golovkin, S. W. Haan, A. Hamza, D. G. Hicks, N. Izumi, J. D. Kilkenny, J. L. Kline, G. A. Kyrala, O. L. Landen, T. Ma, J. J. MacFarlane, R. C. Mancini, R. L. McCrory, N. B. Meezan, D. D. Meyerhofer, A. Nikroo, K. J. Peterson, T. C. Sangster, P. Springer, and R. P. J. Town
    Physics of Plasmas   19, 056307 (2012) (9 pages)   
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    Characterizing counter-streaming interpenetrating plasmas relevant to astrophysical collisionless shocks
    J. S. Ross, S. H. Glenzer, P. Amendt, R. Berger, L. Divol, N. L. Kugland, O. L. Landen, C. Plechaty, B. Remington, D. Ryutov, W. Rozmus, D. H. Froula, G. Fiksel, C. Sorce, Y. Kuramitsu, T. Morita, Y. Sakawa, H. Takabe, R. P. Drake, M. Grosskopf, C. Kuranz, G. Gregori, J. Meinecke, C. D. Murphy, M. Koenig, A. Pelka, A. Ravasio, T. Vinci, E. Liang, R. Presura, A. Spitkovsky, F. Miniati, and H.-S. Park
    Physics of Plasmas   19, 056501 (2012) (8 pages)   
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    Hot Electron Temperature and Coupling Efficiency Scaling with Prepulse for Cone-Guided Fast Ignition
    T. Ma, H. Sawada, P. K. Patel, C. D. Chen, L. Divol, D. P. Higginson, A. J. Kemp, M. H. Key, D. J. Larson, S. Le Pape, A. Link, A. G. MacPhee, H. S. McLean, Y. Ping, R. B. Stephens, S. C. Wilks, and F. N. Beg
    Physical Review Letters   108, 115004 (2012) (5 pages)   
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    Increasing Hydrodynamic Efficiency by Reducing Cross-Beam Energy Transfer in Direct-Drive-Implosion Experiments
    D. H. Froula, I. V. Igumenshchev, D. T. Michel, D. H. Edgell, R. Follett, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, J. Kwiatkowski, F. J. Marshall, P. B. Radha, W. Seka, C. Sorce, S. Stagnitto, C. Stoeckl, and T. C. Sangster
    Physical Review Letters   108, 125003 (2012) (4 pages)   
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    Direct Measurement of Energetic Electrons Coupling to an Imploding Low-Adiabat Inertial Confinement Fusion Capsule
    T. Döppner, C. A. Thomas, L. Divol, E. L. Dewald, P. M. Celliers, D. K. Bradley, D. A. Callahan, S. N. Dixit, J. A. Harte, S. M. Glenn, S. W. Haan, N. Izumi, G. A. Kyrala, G. LaCaille, J. K. Kline, W. L. Kruer, T. Ma, A. J. MacKinnon, J. M. McNaney, N. B. Meezan, H. F. Robey, J. D. Salmonson, L. J. Suter, G. B. Zimmerman, M. J. Edwards, B. J. MacGowan, J. D. Kilkenny, J. D. Lindl, B. M. Van Wonterghem, L. J. Atherton, E. I. Moses, S. H. Glenzer, and O. L. Landen
    Physical Review Letters   108, 135006 (2012) (5 pages)   
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    Quasi-monochromatic pencil beam of laser-driven protons generated using a conical cavity target holder
    M. Nishiuchi, A. S. Pirozhkov, H. Sakaki, K. Ogura, T. Zh. Esirkepov, T. Tanimoto, M. Kanasaki, A. Yogo, T. Hori, A. Sagisaka, Y. Fukuda, Y. Matsumoto, S. Entani, S. Sakai, C. M. Brenner, D. Neely, T. Yamauchi, S. V. Bulanov, and K. Kondo
    Physics of Plasmas   19, 030706 (2012) (4 pages)   
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ATTOSCIENCE

    The Multielectron Ionization Dynamics Underlying Attosecond Strong-Field Spectroscopies
    Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Jochen Mikosch, Arjan Gijsbertsen, Michael Spanner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Niklas Gador, Marc J. J. Vrakking, and Albert Stolow
    Science   335, 1336-1340 (2012)   
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