Structured attosecond pulses for ultrafast nanoscience

Project Information

ATTOSTRUCTURA

Grant agreement ID: 851201

DOI

10.3030/851201

Project closed

EC signature date 22 November 2019

Start date 1 March 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 425 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 425 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Nonlinear up-conversion of a polarization Möbius strip with half-integer optical angular momentum

Author(s): Martin Luttmann, Mekha Vimal, Matthieu Guer, Jean-François Hergott, Antonio Z. Khoury, Carlos Hernández-García, Emilio Pisanty, Thierry Ruchon
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Scien
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf3486

Isolated attosecond spatio-temporal optical vortices: Interplay between the topological charge and orbital angular momentum scaling in high harmonic generation

Author(s): Rodrigo Martin-Hernandez, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernandez-Garcia, Miguel A. Porras
Published in: Accepted in Physical Review Letter 27 Oct 2025, Issue Accepted in Physical Review Letter 27 Oct 2025, 2025, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society,
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.07465

Probing the isolated vector magnetic field of structured laser beams by atoms

Author(s): R. P. Schmidt, S. Martin-Domene, A. A. Peshkov, C. Hernandez-Garcia, A. Surzhykov
Published in: Under review Physical Review A, Issue Under review Physical Review A, 2025, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.01561

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Author(s): Yijie Shen, Qiwen Zhan, Logan G Wright, Demetrios N Christodoulides, Frank W Wise, Alan E Willner, Kai-heng Zou, Zhe Zhao, Miguel A Porras, Andy Chong, Chenhao Wan, Konstantin Y Bliokh, Chen-Ting Liao, Carlos Hernández-García, Margaret Murnane, Murat Yessenov, Ayman F Abouraddy, Liang Jie Wong, Michael Go, Suraj Kumar, Cheng Guo, Shanhui Fan, Nikitas Papasimakis, Nikolay I Zheludev, Lu Chen, Wen
Published in: Journal of Optics, Issue 25, 2023, Page(s) 093001, ISSN 2040-8978
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ace4dc

Extreme-ultraviolet spatiotemporal vortices via high harmonic generation

Author(s): Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Guan Gui, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Chen-Ting Liao, Miguel A. Porras, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 817-824, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01699-w

Simulating macroscopic high-order harmonic generation driven by structured laser beams using artificial intelligence

Author(s): José Miguel Pablos-Marín, Javier Serrano, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Computer Physics Communications, Issue 291, 2023, Page(s) 108823, ISSN 0010-4655
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108823

Control of high harmonic generation in mixed gaseous media

Author(s): José Miguel Pablos-Marín, Javier Serrano, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 41, ISSN 1990-2573
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1051/jeos/2025036

All-optical nonlinear chiral ultrafast magnetization dynamics driven by circularly polarized magnetic fields

Author(s): Luis Sánchez-Tejerina, Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Rocío Yanes, Luis Plaja, Luis López-Díaz, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2095-4719
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2023.71

Tunable Tesla-Scale Magnetic Attosecond Pulses through Ring-Current Gating

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, Franco P. Bonafé, Carlos Hernández-García, Angel Rubio, Ofer Neufeld
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 11160-11167, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02899

Robust Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation with Self-Compressed Subcycle Drivers from Hollow Capillary Fibers

Author(s): Marina Fernández Galán, Javier Serrano, Enrique Conejero Jarque, Rocío Borrego-Varillas, Matteo Lucchini, Maurizio Reduzzi, Mauro Nisoli, Christian Brahms, John C. Travers, Carlos Hernández-García, Julio San Roman
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1673-1683, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01897

Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses Enabled by an Azimuthal Phase and Polarization Grating

Author(s): Nathan J. Brooks, Alba de las Heras, Bin Wang, Iona Binnie, Javier Serrano, Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Carlos Hernández-García, Margaret M. Murnane
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 495-504, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01996

Fourier-Limited Attosecond Pulse from High Harmonic Generation Assisted by Ultrafast Magnetic Fields

Author(s): Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Hongtao Hu, Andrius Baltuska, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Ultrafast Science, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2097-0331
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.34133/ultrafastscience.0036

Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Beams Carrying Self-Torque or Time-Dependent Orbital Angular Momentum

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, Julio San Román, Javier Serrano, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2024, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01320

Attosecond vortex pulse trains

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, David Schmidt, Julio San Román, Javier Serrano, Jonathan Barolak, Bojana Ivanic, Cameron Clarke, Nathaniel Westlake, Daniel E. Adams, Luis Plaja, Charles G. Durfee, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Optica, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1085, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.517702

Attosecond Light Skyrmion Pulses via High Harmonic Generation

Author(s): David Marco, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Under review in Physical Review Letters, Issue Under review in Physical Review Letters, 2025, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: Physical Review Letters
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.19113

Roadmap on structured waves

Author(s): Konstantin Y Bliokh, Ebrahim Karimi, Miles J Padgett, Miguel A Alonso, Mark R Dennis, Angela Dudley, Andrew Forbes, Sina Zahedpour, Scott W Hancock, Howard M Milchberg, Stefan Rotter, Franco Nori, Şahin K Özdemir, Nicholas Bender, Hui Cao, Paul B Corkum, Carlos Hernández-García, Haoran Ren, Yuri Kivshar, Mário G Silveirinha, Nader Engheta, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Vol
Published in: Journal of Optics, Issue 25, 2023, Page(s) 103001, ISSN 2040-8978
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/acea92

Filamentation-Assisted Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation

Author(s): Yu-En Chien, Marina Fernández-Galán, Ming-Shian Tsai, An-Yuan Liang, Enrique Conejero-Jarque, Javier Serrano, Julio San Román, Carlos Hernández-García, Ming-Chang Chen
Published in: Under review in Nature Communications, Issue Under review in Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.06339

Isolated attosecond pulse generation in a semi-infinite gas cell driven by time-gated phase matching

Author(s): Federico Vismarra, Marina Fernández-Galán, Daniele Mocci, Lorenzo Colaizzi, Víctor Wilfried Segundo, Roberto Boyero-García, Javier Serrano, Enrique Conejero-Jarque, Marta Pini, Lorenzo Mai, Yingxuan Wu, Hans Jakob Wörner, Elisa Appi, Cord L. Arnold, Maurizio Reduzzi, Matteo Lucchini, Julio San Román, Mauro Nisoli, Carlos Hernández-García, Rocío Borrego-Varillas
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01564-5

Optical magnetic field enhancement using ultrafast azimuthally polarized laser beams and tailored metallic nanoantennas

Author(s): Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Lorenz Grünewald, Luis Sánchez-Tejerina, Luis Plaja, Enrique Conejero Jarque, Carlos Hernández-García, Sebastian Mai
Published in: Photonics Research, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 1078, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/prj.511916

Attosecond Rabi oscillations in high harmonic generation resonantly driven by extreme ultraviolet laser fields

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, Carlos Hernández-García, Javier Serrano, Aleksandar Prodanov, Dimitar Popmintchev, Tenio Popmintchev, Luis Plaja
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.7.023268

Generation of intense, polarization-controlled magnetic fields with non-paraxial structured laser beams

Author(s): Sergio Martín-Domene, Luis Sánchez-Tejerina, Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 124, 2024, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0197085

Topological high-harmonic spectroscopy

Author(s): Ana García-Cabrera, Roberto Boyero-García, Óscar Zurrón-Cifuentes, Javier Serrano, Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01511-7

Self-interfering high harmonic beam arrays driven by Hermite–Gaussian beams

Author(s): David D. Schmidt, José Miguel Pablos-Marín, Cameron Clarke, Jonathan Barolak, Nathaniel Westlake, Alba de las Heras, Javier Serrano, Sergei Shevtsov, Peter Kazansky, Daniel Adams, Carlos Hernández-García, Charles G. Durfee
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0255843

Other (3)

Attosecond Rabi Oscillations in High Harmonic Generation Resonantly Driven by Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, Carlos Hernández-García, Javier Serrano, Aleksandar Prodanov, Dimitar Popmintchev, Tenio Popmintchev, Luis Plaja
Published in: arXiv, 2024
Publisher: NA
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.04053

Compact, intense attosecond sources driven by hollow Gaussian beams

Author(s): Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Melvin Redon, Ann-Kathrin Raab, Saga Westerberg, Victor Koltalo, Chen Guo, Anne-Lise Viotti, Luis Plaja, Julio San Román, Anne L'Huillier, Cord L. Arnold, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: arXiv, 2025
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.04550

High-topological charge extreme-ultraviolet spatiotemporal vortices via high harmonic generation

Author(s): Rodrigo Martin-Hernandez, Guan Gui, Luis Plaja, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Chen-Ting Liao, Miguel Porras, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4779794/v1

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Beams Carrying Self-Torque or Time-Dependent Orbital Angular Momentum

Author(s): Alba de las Heras, Julio San Román, Javier Serrano, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2024, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01320