Imaging and controlling coherent phonon wave packets in single graphene nanoribbons by Yang Luo, Alberto Martin-Jimenez, Michele Pisarra, Fernando Martin, Manish Garg, Klaus Kern

“…Here, we demonstrate that the vibrational coherences induced by broadband laser pulses on a single graphene nanoribbon (GNR) can be probed by femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) when performed in a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). …”
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Designing a 1550 nm Pulsed Semiconductor Laser-Emission Module Based on a Multiquantum-Well Equivalent Circuit Model by Li Li, Lin Li, Huiwu Xu, Lihua Yan, Gang Li, Dapeng Wang, Jiaju Ying, Fuyu Huang

“…In addition to the power-current features of the actual laser, the critical voltage of the emission module and laser pulses were tested. By comparing the test and simulation results, the effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed.…”
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Silver Nanoplate Composites as Nonlinear Saturable Absorbers for a Q-Switched Laser by Wenhao Lyu, Yuan Cheng, Jiayi An, Marcello Condorelli, Mario Pulvirenti, Giuseppe Compagnini, Xiaogang Wang, Bo Fu, Vittorio Scardaci

“…This study first demonstrates the potential of silver nanoplates as saturable absorbers in generating stable laser pulses with high energy.…”
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Formation of Oriented Nanowires from Mixed Metal Oxides by Anna Dikovska, Genoveva Atanasova, Rumen Nikov, Georgi Avdeev, Zara Cherkezova-Zheleva, Daniela Paneva, Nikolay Nedyalkov

“…Using ablation with <i>ps</i> laser pulses, we were able to produce new composite materials or materials containing unstable phases.…”
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Fast reversible laser-induced crystallization of Sb-rich Zn-Sb-Se phase change material with excellent stability by Yimin Chen, Guoxiang Wang, Manman Tian, Xiang Shen, Tiefeng Xu, Yegang Lu, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie

“…Typically, there is ∼105 resistance ratio and ∼14% relative reflectivity change in Zn19Sb45.7Se35.3 film when switched by electricity or laser pulses between amorphous and crystalline states. …”
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Enhanced proton acceleration in an applied longitudinal magnetic field by A Arefiev, T Toncian, G Fiksel

“…The required kT-level magnetic fields are becoming feasible due to a significant progress that has been made in generating magnetic fields with laser-driven coils using ns-long laser pulses. The possibility of improving characteristics of laser-driven proton beams using such fields is a strong motivation for further development of laser-driven magnetic field capabilities.…”
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Characterization of Electromagnetic Pulses Generated from Plasma Associated with Laser Filaments-Excited Aluminum Alloy Interaction by Rong Qi, Chuliang Zhou, Dongdong Zhang, Liwei Song, Xiaojun Yang, Jiayan Gui, Yuxin Leng, Ye Tian, Ruxin Li

“…The relationship between the energy of EMPs and the width and energy of the laser pulses is presented and discussed. These findings are beneficial for gaining insight into the EMP generation mechanism, spatial distribution, and transmission, and for providing more information for the design of EMPs’ shielding.…”
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Integration of Tb/Co multilayers within optically switchable perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions by L. Avilés-Félix, L. Álvaro-Gómez, G. Li, C. S. Davies, A. Olivier, M. Rubio-Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, A. V. Kimel, Th. Rasing, L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu, R. C. Sousa, B. Dieny, I. L. Prejbeanu

“…The helicity-independent single-shot switching of the magnetization in the Tb/Co multilayered stack was achieved using either 60 fs-long or 5 ps laser pulses with incident fluences down to 4.7 mJ/cm2. …”
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Laser-driven multi-MeV high-purity proton acceleration via anisotropic ambipolar expansion of micron-scale hydrogen clusters by Satoshi Jinno, Masato Kanasaki, Takafumi Asai, Ryutaro Matsui, Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Koichi Ogura, Akito Sagisaka, Yasuhiro Miyasaka, Nobuhiko Nakanii, Masaki Kando, Nobuko Kitagawa, Kunihiro Morishima, Satoshi Kodaira, Yasuaki Kishimoto, Tomoya Yamauchi, Mitsuru Uesaka, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Yuji Fukuda

“…Abstract Multi-MeV high-purity proton acceleration by using a hydrogen cluster target irradiated with repetitive, relativistic intensity laser pulses has been demonstrated. Statistical analysis of hundreds of data sets highlights the existence of markedly high energy protons produced from the laser-irradiated clusters with micron-scale diameters. …”
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Response of NIH 3T3 Fibroblast Cells on Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures on a 15×(Ti/Zr)/Si Multilayer System by Suzana Petrović, Davor Peruško, Alexandros Mimidis, Paraskeva Kavatzikidou, Janez Kovač, Anthi Ranella, Mirjana Novaković, Maja Popović, Emmanuel Stratakis

“…The multilayer 15×(Ti/Zr)/Si thin films were modified by femtosecond laser pulses in air to induce the following modifications: (i) mixing of components inside of the multilayer structures, (ii) the formation of an ultrathin oxide layer at the surfaces, and (iii) surface nano-texturing with the creation of laser-induced periodic surface structure (LIPSS). …”
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Hysteresis and Photoconductivity of Few‐Layer ReSe2 Field Effect Transistors Enhanced by Air Pressure by Kimberly Intonti, Enver Faella, Loredana Viscardi, Arun Kumar, Ofelia Durante, Filippo Giubileo, Maurizio Passacantando, Hoi Tung Lam, Konstantinos Anastasiou, Monica F. Craciun, Saverio Russo, Antonio Di Bartolomeo

“…The transient behavior of the device exposed to laser pulses shows a faster response and a higher photodetection efficiency at ambient pressure, with the highest signal‐to‐noise ratio at the valley of the transfer curve between p‐ and n‐type conduction.…”
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Preparation, characterization, and nonlinear optical properties of graphene oxide thin film doped with low chirality metallic SWCNTs by Asmaa M. Abozied, Ayman M. Mostafa, A. Abouelsayed, A.F. Hassan, A.A. Ramadan, Emad A. Al-Ashkar, Badawi Anis

“…We have investigated their nonlinear optical properties using open and closed Z-scan technique at Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm laser pulses (7 ns, 10 Hz). The nonlinear absorption coefficient β, nonlinear refractive index n2, and third order nonlinear susceptibility χ3 were calculated. …”
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Nanoscatterer-Assisted Fluorescence Amplification Technique by Sylvain Bonnefond, Antoine Reynaud, Julie Cazareth, Sophie Abélanet, Massimo Vassalli, Frédéric Brau, Gian Luca Lippi

“…Amplification of up to a factor of 40 is experimentally demonstrated in ultrapure water with dispersed TiO<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> nanoparticles (30 to 50 nm in diameter) and fluorescein dye at 200 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>mol concentration (pumped with 5 ns long, 3 mJ laser pulses at 490 nm). The measurements show a measurable reduction in linewidth at the emission peak, indicating that feedback-induced stimulated emission contributes to the large gain observed.…”
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Ultrashort pulsed laser induced complex surface structures generated by tailoring the melt hydrodynamics by Fotis Fraggelakis, George D. Tsibidis, Emmanuel Stratakis

“…The method employs spatially controlled double fs laser pulses to actively regulate the hydrodynamic microfluidic motion of the melted layer that gives rise to the structures formation. …”
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Dual-Laser-Induced Breakdown Thermometry via Sound Speed Measurement: A New Procedure for Improved Spatiotemporal Resolution by Shen Li, Wubin Weng, Chengdong Kong, Marcus Aldén, Zhongshan Li

“…To eliminate the interference, in present work, a new measurement procedure was proposed, where two individual laser pulses with optimized firing order and delay time were employed. …”
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Laser-driven production with advanced targets of Copper-64 for medical applications by A. Maffini, F. Mirani, A. C. Giovannelli, A. C. Giovannelli, A. C. Giovannelli, A. Formenti, A. Formenti, M. Passoni

“…In this respect, a promising alternative is laser-driven proton accelerators based on the interaction of superintense laser pulses with target materials. Because of their potential compactness and flexibility, they are under investigation for several applications ranging from materials science to nuclear medicine. …”
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Bi doped LaOCl and LaOF thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition by Babiker M. Jaffar, H.C. Swart, H.A.A. Seed Ahmed, A. Yousif, R.E. Kroon

“…The amount of ablated material present on the substrate was much less for LaOF:Bi compared to LaOCl:Bi, which is attributed to the greater bandgap and hence weaker absorption of the laser pulses for LaOF:Bi. Therefore phosphors based on LaOCl as the host material were found to be preferable over LaOF under the PLD conditions used in this study.…”
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Multipath Data Storage by Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties in Zinc Oxide Nanostructures by Federico Ortíz-Trejo, Martín Trejo-Valdez, Juan Pablo Campos-López, Joel Humberto Castro-Chacón, Carlos Torres-Torres

“…By recording the third-order nonlinear optical response exhibited by the nanomaterials, a straightforward XOR encryption system controlled by laser pulses was developed. Identification of nonlinear optical signals in propagation through the samples was monitored by a standard optical Kerr gate configuration. …”
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Carrier-envelope-phase-dependent dissociation of hydrogen by Han Xu, J-P Maclean, D E Laban, W C Wallace, D Kielpinski, R T Sang, I V Litvinyuk

“…We studied the dependence of dissociative ionization in H _2 on carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of few-cycle (6 fs) near-infrared laser pulses. For low-energy channels, we present the first experimental observation of the CEP dependence of combined dissociation yield (with protons emitted in both directions), as well as the highest degree of asymmetry reported to date (40%). …”
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Revealing the interlayer van der Waals coupling of bi-layer and tri-layer MoS2 using terahertz coherent phonon spectroscopy by Peng-Jui Wang, Po-Cheng Tsai, Zih-Sian Yang, Shih-Yen Lin, Chi-Kuang Sun

“…The layers’ THz vibration is displacively stimulated and temporally retrieved by near-UV femtosecond laser pulses, revealing Raman-active and Raman-inactive modes in one measurement. …”
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