publications

• 36. Akihiro Oshima, Hiroki Mashiko, Ming-Chang Chen, Ikufumi Katayama, Jun Takeda, and Katsuya Oguri*, "Spectral Interferometric Transient Complex Refraction Spectroscopy with Extreme Ultraviolet Double Attosecond Pulses," Communications Physics (accepted, 2025).

• 35. Meng Han*, Ming-Chang Chen*, Ming-Shian Tsai, and Hao Liang, "Hearing carrier-envelope offset frequency and phase in air with a microphone," Optica 12, 459-464 (2025) 

• 34. Hao-Hsiang Jia, Yuki Nakata, Seigo Souma, Katsuaki Sugawara, Yang-Hao Chan, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Ming-Chang Chen, Takafumi Sato, Chih-Wei Luo, Ashish Chainani, and Ping-Hui Lin*, "Ultrafast relaxation dynamics and nonequilibrium processes in graphite," Physical Review B 111, 195430 (2025).

• 33. Hao Liang*, Ming-Shian Tsai, Chun-Chia Tseng, Ming-Chang Chen*, Uwe Thumm  and Meng Han*, "Waveform-dependent air fluorescence from neutral and ionic nitrogen molecules", Sci Adv. 11(23):eadu9200 (2025). 

• 32. Hao-Hsiang Jia, Tien-Tien Yeh, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Chih-Wei Luo, Ming-Chang Chen*, and Ping-Hui Lin*, "Enhance high harmonic generation (HHG) efficiency via compact multi-plate continuum post-compression for time-resolved angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy," Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 055106 (2023).

• 31. Takuya Okamoto∗, Yoji Kunihashi, Yasushi Shinohara, Haruki Sanada, Ming-Chang Chen, Katsuya Oguri1, “Operation at 1 MHz of 1.7-cycle multiple plate compression at 35-W average output power”, Optics Letters, 48, 2579 (2023)

• 30. Tzu-Chieh Yen,a Wun-Cin Huang, a Chun-Yueh Lin,a Ming-Chang Chen*, Kung-Hsuan Lin*, Ing-Shouh Hwang*, “Reliable preparation and regeneration of well- defined single-atom tips through laser annealing”, Nanoscale Advances, 4, 4138 (2022)

• 29. Ming-Shian Tsai, An-Yuan Liang, Chia-Lun Tsai, Po-Wei Lai, Ming-Wei Lin, Ming-Chang Chen*, “Nonlinear compression toward high-energy single-cycle pulses by cascaded focus and compression”, Science Advances 8, eabo1945 (2022)

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• 28. Kuang-Yu Chang, Long-Cheng Huang, Koji Asaga, Ming-Shian Tsai, Laura Rego Cabezas, Pei-Chi Huang, Hiroki Mashiko, Katsuya Oguri, Carlos Hernandez-Garcia, and Ming-Chang Chen*, “High-Order Nonlinear Dipole Response Characterized by Extreme-Ultraviolet Ellipsometry”, Optica, 8, 484-492 (2021)

• 27. Pei-Chi Huang, Jen-Ting Huang, Po-Yao Huang, Kuang-Yu Chang, Ming-Chang Chen, “Progress to provide tunable polarization of isolated attosecond pulses”, Review of Laser Engineering Vol.48, No.4 (2020)

• 26. Hiroki Mashiko, Ming-Chang Chen, Koji Asaga, Akihiro Oshima, Ikufumi Katayama, Jun Takeda, Tadashi Nishikawa, and Katsuya Oguri, “Spatially resolved spectral phase interferometry with an isolated attosecond”, Optics Express, 28, 21025 (2020)

• 25. Chia-Lun Tsai, Yi-Hsun Tseng, An-Yuan Liang, Ming-Wei Lin, Shang-Da Yang, Ming-Chang Chen, "Nonlinear compression of intense optical pulses at 1.55 μm by multiple plate continuum generation", accepted to Journal of Lightwave Technology (2019)

• 24. Pei-Chi Huang, Carlos Hernández-García, Jen-Ting Huang, Po-Yao Huang, Laura Rego , Chih-Hsuan Lu , Shang-Da Yang, Luis Plaja, Andy H. Kung, and Ming-Chang Chen, "Realization of Polarization Control in High-Order Harmonic Generation", JSTQE (Invited Paper) JSTQE.2019.2919777 (2019)

• 23. Chih-Hsuan Lu, Wei-Hsin Wu, Shiang-He Kuo, Jhan-Yu Guo, Ming-Chang Chen, Shang-Da Yang, and A H Kung, "Greater than 50 times compression of 1030 nm Yb:KGW laser pulses to single-cycle duration", Optics Express Vol. 27, Issue 11, pp. 15638-15648 (2019)

• 22. Cheng Jin, Ming-Chang Chen, Hung-Wei Sun, and C D Lin,"Extension of water-window harmonic cutoff by laser defocusing-assisted phase matching", Optics Letters, 43(18), 4433 (2018).

• 21. Pei-Chi Huang, Carlos Hernández-García, Jen-Ting Huang, Po-Yao Huang, Chih-Hsuan Lu, Laura Rego, Daniel D. Hickstein, Jennifer L. Ellis, Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, Andreas Becker, Shang-Da Yang, Charles G. Durfee, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, A. H. Kung & Ming-Chang Chen, "Polarization control of isolated high-harmonic pulses", Nature Photonics, 12(6), 349–354 (2018).

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• 20. Dimitar Popmintchev, Benjamin R. Galloway, Ming-Chang Chen, Franklin Dollar, Christopher A. Mancuso, Amelia Hankla, Luis Miaja-Avila, Galen O’Neil, Justin M. Shaw, Guangyu Fan, Skirmantas Ališauskas4, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balčiunas, Oliver D. Mücke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuška, Henry C. Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev, Margaret M. Murnane , “Near and extended edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy using ultrafast coherent high harmonic supercontinua”, Physical Review Letters , 120, 093002 (2018).

• 19. Yi-Sha Ku, Wei-Ting Wang, Yi-Chang Chen, Ming-Chang Chen, Chia-Liang Yeh, Chun-Wei Lo, "Development of extreme ultraviolet scatterometer using multiple orders of high-harmonic generation," J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS 17(1), 014001 (2018), doi: 10.1117/1.JMM.17.1.014001.

• 18. Sun, H.-W., Huang, P.-C., Tzeng, Y.-H., Huang, J.-T., Lin, C. D., Jin, C., & Chen, M.-C. "Extended phase matching of high harmonic generation by plasma-induced defocusing", Optica, 4(8), 976. (2017)

• 17. Yi-Sha Ku, Chia-Liang Yeh, Yi-Chang Chen, Chun-Wei Lo, Wei-Ting Wang, and Ming-Chang Chen, "EUV scatterometer with a high-harmonic-generation EUV source", Optics Express, 24(24), 28014. (2016)

• 16. Dimitar Popmintchev, Carlos Hernández-García1, Franklin Dollar, Christopher Mancuso, Jose A. Pérez-Hernández, Ming-Chang Chen, Amelia Hankla, Xiaohui Gao, Bonggu Shim, Alexander L. Gaeta, Maryam Tarazkar, Dmitri A. Romanov, Robert J. Levis, Jim A. Gaffney, Mark Foord, Stephen B. Libby, Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, Andreas Becker, Luis Plaja, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev, “Ultraviolet surprise: Efficient soft x-ray high-harmonic generation in multiply ionized plasmas” , Science, 350, 1225 (2015)

• 15. Po-Yen Hsiao, Chia-Lun Tsai, Ming-Chang Chen, Yen-Yin Lin, Shang-Da Yang, and Ann-Shyn Chiang, “Non-invasive manipulation of Drosophila behavior by two-photon excited red-activatable channelrhodopsin” , Biomedical Optics Express, 6, 4344 (2015)

• 14. C. Mancuso, D. D. Hickstein1, P. Grychtol1, R. Knut1, O. Kfir, X.-M. Tong, F. Dollar, D. Zusin, M. Gopalakrishnan, C. Gentry, E. Turgut, J. L. Ellis1, M.-C. Chen, A. Fleischer, O. Cohen, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane, “Strong-field ionization with two-color circularly polarized laser fields” , Physical Review A, 91, 031402(R) (2015)

• 13. Chih-Hsuan Lu, Yu-Jung Tsou, Hong-Yu Chen, Bo-Han Chen, Yu-Chen Cheng, Shang-Da Yang, Ming-Chang Chen, Chia-Chen Hsu, and A. H. Kung, “Generation of intense supercontinuum in condensed media," Optica 1, 400-406 (2014).

• 12. M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C. Hernández-García, F. Dollar, B. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, B. Langdon, A. Auge, P.-C. Huang, B.C. Walker, L. Plaja, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, T. Popmintchev, "Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses Driven by Multi-Cycle Mid-Infrared Lasers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: doi: 10.1073/pnas.1407421111 (2014)

• 11. C.-C. Chen, Y.-S. Chen, C.-B. Huang, M.-C. Chen, Shang-Da Yang, “Non-iterative data inversion of phase retrieval by omega oscillating filtering for optical arbitrary waveform measurement” Optics Letters 38, 2011 (2013)

• 10. T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, D. Popmintchev, P. Arpin, S. Brown, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balčiunas, O. Mücke, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuška, B. Shim, S. E. Schrauth, A. Gaeta, C. Hernández-García, L. Plaja, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, M. Murnane, and H. Kapteyn, “Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-Ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers”, Science 336(6086), 1287-1291 (2012) 

• 09. G. Andriukaitis, T. Balčiūnas, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn, “90-GW Peak-Power Few-Cycle Mid-IR Pulses from an Optical Parametric Amplifier”, Optics Letters, 36, 2755 (2011)

• 08. M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, T. Pomintchev, M. Gerrity, B. Zhang, M. Seaberg, M.M. Murnane and H.C. Kapteyn, “Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Source”, Physical Review Letters 105, 173901(2010) - Featured on cover

• 07. T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, M.M. Murnane, and H.C. Kapteyn, “The Attosecond Nonlinear Optics of Bright Coherent X-Ray Generation”, Nature Photonics 4, 822 (2010) - Featured on cover

• 06. M.-C. Chen, M. R. Gerrity, S. Backus, T. Popmintchev, X. Zhou, P. Arpin, X. Zhang, H.C. Kapteyn and M. M. Murnane, “Spatially Coherent, Phase Matched, High-Order Harmonic EUV Light source at 50 kHz”, Optics Express 17, 17376 (2009) 

• 05. T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, A. Bahabad, M. Gerrity,P. Sidorenko, I.P. Christov,M. M. Murnane,H. C. Kapteyn, “Phase Matching of High Harmonics Generation in the Soft and Hard X-ray Regions of the Spectrum”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (26), 10516 (2009)

• 04. T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, O. Cohen, M. E. Grisham, J. J. Rocca, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, “Extended Phase Matching of High Harmonics Driven by Mid-Infrared Light”, Optics Letters 33, 2128 (2008).

• 03. Jung Y. Huang, Liu S. Li, and M.-C. Chen, “Probing Molecular Binding Effect from Zinc Oxide Nanocrystal Doping in Surface-Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal with Two-Dimensional Infrared Correlation Technique”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 5410 (2008)

• 02. M.-C. Chen, Jung Y. Huang, Qiantso Yang, C. L. Pan, and Jen-Inn Chyi , “Freezing phase scheme for fast adaptive control and its application to characterization of femtosecond coherent optical pulses reflected from semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 22, 1134 (2005)

• 01. M.-C. Chen, J.Y. Huang and L.J. Chen, “Coherent control multiphoton processes in semiconductor saturable Bragg reflector with freezing phase algorithm”, Applied Physics B, 80, 333. (2005)

1. M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, M. Gerrity, M. Seaberg, B. Zhang, D. Popmintchev, G.Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, O. D. Mücke, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuška, M. M. Murnane, and H. C.Kapteyn, "Bright, Coherent, Attosecond Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Source," in Ultrafast Phenomena XVII: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference,Snowmass, Colorado, United States, July18-23, 2010, M. Chergui et al, ed. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2011), pp. 9-11.

2. T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, O. Cohen, M.M. Murnane, and H.C. Kapteyn, “Phase Matching and Quasi-Phase Matching of Extreme High-Order Harmonic Generation,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa Italy, June 2008. P. Corkum, S. Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein Eds., Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 92, 2009. pp. 12-14.

3. M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C Hernández-García, F. Dollar, B. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, B. Langdon, A. Auger, P.-C. Huang, B.C. Walker, L. Plaja, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn, T. Popmintchev, “Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses”, Ultrafast Phenomena 2014 Proceedings, in press

1. M.-C. Chen, one Chapter on "Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast X-rays from Phase-Matched High-Order Harmonics" for book "Tabletop intense femtosecond pulse sources and their applications", Edited by: Andrius Baltuska, TU Wien (Austria) and Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Springer (2016)

16. Contributed talk, Carlos Hernandez-Garcia; Ming-Chang Chen; Christopher Mancuso; Franklin Dollar; Benjamin Galloway; Dimitar Popmintchev; Pei-Chi Huang; Barry C. Walker; Tenio Popmintchev; Margaret Murnane; Henry Kapteyn; Luis Plaja; Agnieszka Jaron-Becker; Andreas Becker, "Theory of time-gated phase-matching for isolated attosecond soft x-ray pulse generation using mid-infrared lasers", OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, Paper FTu3B.7, June 8, 2014.

15. Contributed talk, Christopher A. Mancuso; Ming-Chang Chen; Carlos Hernandez-Garcia; Franklin Dollar; Benjamin Galloway; Dimitar Popmintchev; Benjamin Langdon; Amelie Auger; P. C. Huang; Barry C. Walker; Luis Plaja; Agnieszka Jaron-Becker; Andreas Becker; Margaret Murnane; Henry Kapteyn; Tenio Popmintchev, "Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses Driven by Multi-Cycle Mid-Infrared Lasers", OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, Paper FTu3B.5, June 8, 2014

14. Contributed talk, M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C Hernández-García, F. Dollar, B. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, B. Langdon, A. Auger, P.-C. Huang, B.C. Walker, L. Plaja, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn, T. Popmintchev, "Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses Driven by Multi-Cycle Mid-Infrared Lasers", 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Okinawa, July 7, 2014

13. Invited talk, M.-C. Chen, Optics & Photonics Taiwan, International Conference Dec. 2013.

12. Contributed talk, Hung-Wei Sun, Po-Yao Huang, Chi-Cheng Chen, Wan-Tien Chao, Ming-Chang Chen, Shang-Da Yang and Chen-Bin Huang, “Generation of Half-Cycle linearly Polarized Electric Field Transient” Taiwan OPT conference.

11. Contributed talk, M.-C. Chen, “Microscopic-Macroscopic Picture of High Harmonic Generation to the keV X-ray Region” International Workshop for attosecond science and 3rd MCP-AS Workshop, Beijing, June 27, 2013.

10. Invited talk, M.-C. Chen, “The nonlinear optics of coherent X-ray generation: harness attosecond science”, EE IPT, NTHU, Taiwan, March 2012.

9. Contributed talk, Xiaoshi Zhang, Dan Adams, Sterling Backus, T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, Paul Arpin, Michael Gerrity, Susannah Brown, Chris Mancuso, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Q. Li, Emrah Turgut,M. Murnane, and H. Kapteyn, “Ultrafast X-ray “Laser” Advancing Nanophotonics and nanoelectronics towards unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions,” Photonics Asia, Beijing, China, November 2012

8. Contributed talk, M.-C. Chen, T. Popmintchev, D. Popmintchev, P. Arpin, S. Brown, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, “Fully Spatially Coherent High Harmonic Beams in the keV Region of the Spectrum”, OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, May 2012. Paper JTh3I.1

7. Contributed talk, B. Shim, S. Schrauth, T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, D. Popmintchev, S. Ališauskas, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuška, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, A. Gaeta, “Role of Self-focusing in Bright Coherent X-Ray Generation by Mid-Infrared Driving Lasers”, OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, May 2012. Paper QTu3H.4.

6. Contributed talk, T. Popmintchev, D. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, J. Siqueira, C. Hernandez-Garcia. J. Perez-Hernandez, L. Plaja, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, S. Alisauskas, G. Andriukaitis, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, “Unified Microscopic-Macroscopic Picture of High Harmonic Generation from the VUV to the keV X-ray Region”, OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, May 2012. Paper CF1L.2.

5. Invited talk, M.-C. Chen, “Efficient, Phase Matched keV High Harmonic Generation using Mid-IR Driving Laser Wavelenghs”, Institute of Atomic And Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan., 2012.

4. Contributed talk, M.-C. Chen, T. Popmintchev, D. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, A. Pugzlys, S. Alisaukas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, A. Baltuska, “Phase-Matched, Coherent, Attosecond Hard X-ray pulses from a Mid-IR Few-Cycle Tabletop Source”, Conference on Attosecond Phenomena (ATTO3), Sapporo, Japan, July 2011.

3. Invited talk, T. Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, M. Gerrity, M. Seaberg, B. Zhang, D. Popmintchev, A. Bahabad, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, “Bright Coherent X-Rays from Tabletop Ultrafast Lasers”, National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship Conference, Arlington, VA, July, 2010

2. Contributed talk, P. Arpin, R. Sandberg, D. Raymondson, M.-C. Chen, T. Popmintchev, M. Gerrity, M. Seaberg, H. C. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, “Coherent Imaging at the Nanoscale using Ultrafast Soft X-Rays” National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship Conference, Arlington, VA, July, 2010.

1. Contributed talk, M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, M. Gerrity, M. Seaberg, B. Zhang, D. Popmintchev, A. Bahabad, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, “Bright, Coherent, Attosecond Soft XRay Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Source,” 17th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Snowmass, CO, July 2010

1. M.-C. Chen, H.-W. Sun, P.-C. Huang, 緊聚焦架構下高次諧波光源產生之最佳化系統及方法, 中華民國專利 106140050 (2018)

2. M.-C. Chen, H.-W. Sun, P.-C. Huang, HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD IN TIGHT FOCUSING GEOMETRY, US Patent Pending 16/190,838

3. T Popmintchev, M.-C. Chen, A Bahabad, MM Murnane, HC Kapteyn, “Method for phase-matched generation of coherent soft and hard x-rays using IR lasers”, United States Patent: 8,462,824 (2013).