Extreme Soliton Driven Light Sources

Project Information

XSOL

Grant agreement ID: 101001534

DOI

10.3030/101001534

EC signature date 11 March 2021

Start date 1 July 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 404 702,00

EU contribution

€ 2 404 702,00

Coordinated by

HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Decoupled few-femtosecond phase transitions in vanadium dioxide

Author(s): Christian Brahms, Lin Zhang, Xiao Shen, Utso Bhattacharya, Maria Recasens, Johann Osmond, Tobias Grass, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Kent A. Hallman, Richard F. Haglund, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Maciej Lewenstein, John C. Travers, Allan S. Johnson
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58895-z

HISOL: High-energy soliton dynamics enable ultrafast far-ultraviolet laser sources

Author(s): Christian Brahms, John C. Travers
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0206108

On-target delivery of intense ultrafast laser pulses through hollow-core anti-resonant fibers

Author(s): Athanasios Lekosiotis; Federico Belli; Christian Brahms; Mohammed Sabbah; Hesham Sakr; Ian A. Davidson; Francesco Poletti; John C. Travers
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 30227-30238, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.496506

Direct temporal characterization of sub-3-fs deep UV pulses generated by resonant dispersive wave emission: erratum

Author(s): M. Reduzzi, M. Pini, L. Mai, F. Cappenberg, L. Colaizzi, F. Vismarra, A. Crego, M. Lucchini, C. Brahms, J. C. Travers, R. Borrego Varillas, M. Nisoli
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 32, 2024, Page(s) 34651, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.537795

Multi-pass cell driven multi-kHz dispersive wave emission of broadband deep-UV pulses

Author(s): Laura Silletti, Ammar bin Wahid, Teodora F. Grigorova, Lorenzo Pratolli, Ana Oliveira e Silva, Nans Hermellin, Terry Mullins, Andrea Trabattoni, Christoph M. Heyl, Christian Brahms, Vincent Wanie, John C. Travers, Francesca Calegari
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0268188

Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves

Author(s): Sebastian L. Jackson, Andrew W. Prentice, Lauren Bertram, Lewis Hutton, Nikoleta Kotsina, Christian Brahms, Chris Sparling, John C. Travers, Adam Kirrander, Martin J. Paterson, Dave Townsend
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64943-5

Efficient and compact source of tuneable ultrafast deep ultraviolet laser pulses at 50 kHz repetition rate

Author(s): Christian Brahms and John C. Travers
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 48, 2023, Page(s) 151-154, ISSN 1539-4794
Publisher: Optica
DOI: 10.1364/ol.480103

Few-femtosecond soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy with tuneable DUV-Vis pump pulses

Author(s): Jacob P. Lee, Timur Avni, Oliver Alexander, Marios Maimaris, Haoqing Ning, Artem A. Bakulin, Philippe G. Burden, Evangelos Moutoulas, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Christian Brahms, John C. Travers, Jon P. Marangos, Clément Ferchaud
Published in: Optica, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1320, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.530964

Optical solitons in hollow-core fibres

Author(s): John C. Travers
Published in: Optics Communications, Issue 555, 2023, Page(s) 130191, ISSN 0030-4018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2023.130191

Dispersion-tuning of nonlinear optical pulse dynamics in gas-filled hollow capillary fibres

Author(s): Teodora Grigorova, Christian Brahms, Federico Belli, John C. Travers
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 107, 2023, Page(s) 063512, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.107.063512

Direct temporal characterization of sub-3-fs deep UV pulses generated by resonant dispersive wave emission

Author(s): Reduzzi, M.; Pini, M.; Mai, L.; Cappenberg, F.; Colaizzi, L.; Vismarra, F.; Crego, A.; Lucchini, M.; Brahms, C.; Travers, J. C.; Borrego-Varillas, R.; Nisoli, M.
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 26854-26864, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.494879

Other (1)

Decoupled few-femtosecond phase transitions in vanadium dioxide

Author(s): Christian Brahms, Lin Zhang, Xiao Shen, Utso Bhattacharya, Maria Recasens, Johann Osmond, Tobias Grass, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Kent A. Hallman, Richard F. Haglund, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Maciej Lewenstein, John C. Travers, Allan S. Johnson
Published in: arXiv - under review at Nature Physics, 2024
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.01266