Publications

2023
  • Hutchison, Christopher DM, et al. “Optical control of ultrafast structural dynamics in a fluorescent protein.” Nature Chemistry (2023): 1-9.
  • Lu, B., Shiri, A., Carbajo, S., & Wernsing, K. (2023). High-Efficiency, Single-Stage Tunable Optical Parametric Amplifier for Visible Photocathode Applications.
  • Zhang, Hao, et al. “The LCLS-II Photoinjector Laser Infrastructure.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12030 (2023).
  • Ishigami, Izumi, et al. “Detection of a geminate photoproduct of bovine cytochrome c oxidase by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 145.41 (2023): 22305-22309.
  • Hirschman, Jack, Minyang Wang, and Sergio Carbajo. “LSTM Nonlinear Dynamics Predictor for Accelerating Data Generation in Ultrafast Optics and Laser System Design.” (2023).
  • Neveu, Nicole, et al. “Nonlinearly Shaped Pulses in Photoinjectors and Free-Electron Lasers.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16590 (2023).
  • On Colonial Narratives in Urban Mapping and Dynamics (2023)
  • On Linguistics of (Inclusive) STEM Education (2023)
  • On the Power of Storytelling and Logics to Affect Scientific Progress 
  • On the Human-Machine Embodiment of Knowledge
2022
  • J. Hirschman et al., Design, Optimization, and Reverse Engineering of High-Power Laser Systems, arXiv:2211.09640
  • S. Carbajo, Queered Science & Technology Center: Volume 1
  • Adam et al., Rational control of off-state heterogeneity in a photoswitchable fluorescent protein provides switching contrast enhancement, ChemPhysChem 2022, e202200192
  • Wolff, Alexander M., et al. “Mapping Protein Dynamics at High-Resolution with Temperature-Jump X-ray Crystallography.” bioRxiv (2022).
  • Lemons, Randy, and Sergio Carbajo. “Phase Retrieval and Reconstruction of Coherent Synthesis by Genetic Algorithm.” Journal of Physics: Photonics (2022).
  • Lemons, Randy, et al. “Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses.” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 25.1 (2022): 013401.
2021
  • Cesar, David, et al. “Electron beam shaping via laser heater temporal shaping.” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 24.11 (2021): 110703.
  • Hussein et al., Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition.” Nature communications 12.1 (2021): 1-16.
  • Carbajo, Light by design: emerging frontiers in ultrafast photon sciences and light-matter interactions, invited perspective article in Journal of Physics: Photonics, Volume 3, Number 3 (2021)
  • H. Yong et al., Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Offers a Structural View of Excited State Charge Transfer, PNAS (2021)  DOI number 10.1073/pnas.2021714118
  • Grünbein et al., Effect of X-ray free-electron laser-induced shockwaves on hemoglobin microcrystals delivered in a liquid jet, Nat Commun 12, 1672 (2021)
  • Sorigué et al., Mechanism and dynamics of light-driven decarboxylation in fatty acid photodecarboxylase, Science 372, eabd5687 (2021) DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5687
  • Yun, J.-H. et al., Early-stage dynamics for Chloride ion pumping rhodopsins revealed by femtosecond X-ray lasers, PNAS 2021, 118 (13) e2020486118; 
  • Grünbein et al., Observation of shock-induced protein crystal damage during megahertz serial femtosecond crystallography, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013046 (2021)
  • Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Josef C. Frisch, Steve Smith, Joseph Robinson, Alan Fry, and Sergio Carbajo, Integrated Structured Light Architectures, Scientific Reports volume 11, 796 (2021)

2020

  • Robert Dods et al., Ultrafast Structural Response to Charge Redistribution within a Photosynthetic Reaction Centre, Nature (2020)
  • Sergio Carbajo, Jonathan C. Coopersmith, Geoffrey Cushman, Kevin Felch, John Lohr, Julie Mikula, Alan Rhodes and Edl Schamiloglu, Beamed Energy Propulsion for Low-Cost Launch to Earth Orbit: Paths for Progress, Aerospace Research Central DOI: 10.2514/6.2020-4173 (2020)
  • Jack Hirschman, Randy Lemons, Evan Chansky, Günter Steinmeyer, and Sergio Carbajo, Long-term Hybrid Stabilization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase, Opt. Express 28, 34093-34103 (2020)
  • Ibrahim et al., Untangling the Sequence of Events occurring at the Micro- to Milli-Second Time Domain during the S2 to S3 Transition in Photosystem II: Implications. for the Water Oxidation Mechanism, PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000529117 (2020)
  • Sergio Carbajo, Transient Work Function Gating: A New Photoemission Regime, Journal of Applied Physics 128, 023102 (2020)
  • Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M Ruddock, Brian Stankus, Mats Simmermacher, Andrés Moreno Carrascosa, Wenpeng Du, Nathan Goff, Yu Chang, Darren Bellshaw, Mengning Liang, Sergio Carbajo, Jason E Koglin, Joseph S Robinson, Sébastien Boutet, Michael P Minitti, Adam Kirrander, Peter M Weber, Observation of the molecular response to light upon photoexcitation, Nat. Comm. Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-6 (2020)
  • Jingyi Tang, Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Sharon Vetter, Timothy Maxwell, Franz-Josef Decker, Alberto Lutman, Jacek Krzywinski, Gabriel Marcus, Stefan Moeller, Zhirong Huang, Daniel Ratner, and Sergio Carbajo, Laguerre-Gaussian Mode Laser Heater for Microbunching Instability Suppression in Free Electron Lasers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 134801(2020)
  • A. M. Wolff, et al. Comparing serial X-ray crystallography and microcrystal electron diffraction as methods for routine structure determination from small crystals, IUCrJ, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/767061 (2020)

2019

  • Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Irene Fernandez De Fuentes, Stefan Droste, Günter Steinmeyer, Charles G Durfee and Sergio Carbajo, Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of an Er: Yb: glass laser via feed-forward technique, Optics Letters 44, pp. 5610-5613 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.005610
  • Sergio Carbajo, Liang Jie Wong, Jerome Faure, Arya Fallahi, Editorial: Lasers in Accelerator Science and Secondary Emission Light Source Technology, Frontiers in Physics 7, p. 162 (2019)
  • Brian Stankus, Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M Ruddock, Darren Bellshaw, Thomas J Lane, Mengning Liang, Sébastien Boutet, Sergio Carbajo, Joseph S Robinson, Wenpeng Du, Nathan Goff, Yu Chang, Jason E Koglin, Michael P Minitti, Adam Kirrander, Peter M Weber, Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation, Nature Chemistry 11, pages716–721(2019)
  • Kovacs et al., Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin, Nature Comm. 10, Article number: 3177 (2019)
  • Ruddock JM, Minitti MP, Weber PM, Yong H, Stankus B, Du W, Goff N, Chang Y, Odate A, Carrascosa AM, Bellshaw D., Carbajo S., A Deep-UV Trigger for Ground-State Ring-Opening Dynamics of 1, 3-Cyclohexadiene, Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax6625 (2019)
  • Haiwang Yong, Jennifer M. Ruddock, Brian Stankus, Lingyu Ma,   Wenpeng Du, Nathan Goff,   Yu Chang, Nikola Zotev, Darren Bellshaw, Sébastien Boutet, Sergio Carbajo, Jason E. Koglin, Mengning Liang, Joseph S. Robinson,   Adam Kirrander,   Michael P. Minitti, and   Peter M. Weber, Scattering off Molecules far from Equilibrium, Journal of Chemical Physics 151, 084301 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5111979
  • Stankus B, Yong H, Zotev N, Ruddock JM, Bellshaw D, Lane TJ, Liang M, Boutet S, Carbajo S, Robinson JS, Du W. Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation. Nature Chemistry. 2019 Jul 8:1.
  • M. H. Seaberg et al., CXI nanofocus characterization using single 2D grating interferometry, X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation V, SPIE 2019
  • Ruddock JM, Zotev N, Stankus B, Yong H, Bellshaw D, Boutet S, Lane TJ, Liang M, Carbajo S, Du W, Kirrander A. Simplicity Beneath Complexity: Counting Molecular Electrons Reveals Transients and Kinetics of Photodissociation Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 2019 May 6;131(19):6437-41.
  • C. Arnold, L. Inhester, S. Carbajo, R. Welsch, and R. Santra, Simulated XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of THz-pumped Liquid Water, Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (4), 044505 (2019)
  • Sierra, R.G., Batyuk, A., Sun, Z., Aquila, A., Hunter, M.S., Lane, T.J., Liang, M., Yoon, C.H., Alonso-Mori, R., Armenta, R., Carbajo S. and Castagna, J.C., 2019. The Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography Instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source. Journal of synchrotron radiation, 26(2).
  • Y. Salamin, and S. Carbajo, A simple model for the fields of a chirped laser pulse with application to electron laser acceleration, Front. Phys. | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2019.00002 (2019)

2018

  • Kern, J., Chatterjee, R., Young, I.D., Fuller, F.D., Lassalle, L., Ibrahim, M., Gul, S., Fransson, T., Brewster, A.S., Alonso-Mori, R., Hussein, R., Carbajo S., 2018. Structures of the intermediates of Kok’s photosynthetic water oxidation clock. Nature, 563(7731), p.421.
  • Yong H, Zotev N, Stankus B, Ruddock JM, Bellshaw D, Boutet S, Lane TJ, Liang M, Carbajo S, Robinson JS, Du W. Determining Orientations of Optical Transition Dipole Moments Using Ultrafast X-ray Scattering. The journal of physical chemistry letters. 2018 (22):6556-62.
  • Liebster, N., Tang, J., Ratner, D., Liu, W., Vetter, S., Huang, Z. and Carbajo, S., 2018. Laguerre-Gaussian and beamlet array as second-generation laser heater profiles. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 21(9), p.090701. (2018)
  • Nogly P, Weinert T, James D, Carbajo S, Ozerov D, Furrer A, Gashi D, Borin V, Skopintsev P, Jaeger K, Nass K. Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser, Science 361, eaat0094 (2018)
  • Philip Heimann, Stefan Moeller, Sergio Carbajo, Sanghoon Song, Georgi Dakovski, Dennis Nordlundb and David Fritz, Laser Power Meters as X-ray Intensity Monitors for LCLS-II, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577517014096 (2018)

2017

  • Liang Jie Wong, Kyung-Han Hong, Sergio Carbajo, Arya Fallahi, Philippe Piot, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Franz X. Kärtner & Ido Kaminer, Laser-Induced Linear-Field Particle Acceleration in Free Space, Scientific Reports, 7: 11159 (2017)
  • Coquelle et al., Chromophore twisting in the excited state of a photoswitchable fluorescent protein captured by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography, Nature Chemistry, DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2853 (2017)
  •  Dods et al., From macro-crystals to microcrystals: a strategy for membrane protein serial crystallography, Structure 25, 1–8 (2017)
  • Frederike Ahr, Spencer W. Jolly, Nicholas H. Matlis, Sergio Carbajo, Tobias Kroh, Koustuban Ravi, Damian N. Schimpf, Jan Schulte, Hideki Ishizuki, Takunori Taira, Andreas R. Maier, and Franz X. Kärtner, Narrowband terahertz generation with chirped-and-delayed laser pulses in periodically poled lithium niobate, Optics Letters 42 (11), 2118-2121 (2017)

2016

  • F. X. Kärtner et al., AXSIS: Exploring the frontiers in attosecond X-ray science, imaging, and spectroscopy, Nucl. Instr. Meth. PRS A, (2016)
  • Sergio Carbajo, Anne-Laure Calendron, Huseyin Cankaya, Paula Alcorta, Koustuban Ravi, Frederike Ahr, Xiaojun Wu, Arya Fallahi, Franz X Kärtner, Effective path towards relativistic transients at millimeter wavelengths, arxiv:1602.08136 (2016)
  • Sergio Carbajo, Emilio A. Nanni, Liang Jie Wong, Gustavo Moriena, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Franz X. Kärtner, Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space, PRSTAB 19, 021303 (2016)
  • S. Carbajo, J Schulte et al, Efficient narrowband terahertz generation in cryogenically cooled periodically poled lithium niobate, Opt. Lett. 40 (24), 5762 (2016)

2015 and before

  • K Ravi, WR Huang, S Carbajo, E Nanni, D Schimpf, EP Ippen, FX Kӓrtner, Theory of THz generation by Optical Rectification using Tilted-Pulse-Fronts, Opt. Expr. (2015)
  • S. Carbajo, Advances towards the development of compact relativistic electron and bright x-ray sources, dissertation publication, Universität Hamburg (2015)
  • WS Graves, J Bessuille, P Brown, S Carbajo, V Dolgashev, K-H Hong, E Ihloff, B Khaykovich, H Lin, K Murari, EA Nanni, G Resta, S Tantawi, LE Zapata, FX Kärtner, DE Moncton, Compact X-ray Source using a High Repetition Rate Laser and Copper Linac, arXiv:1409.6954 (2014)
  • X Wu, S Carbajo, K Ravi, F Ahr, G Cirmi, Y Zhou, OD Mücke, FX Kärtner, Terahertz generation in lithium niobate driven by Ti: sapphire laser pulses and its limitations, Optics Letters 39 (18), 5403-5406 (2014)
  • S. Carbajo, E Granados, D Schimpf, A Sell, KH Hong, J Moses, FX Kärtner, Efficient generation of ultra-intense few-cycle radially polarized laser pulses, Optics Letters 39 (8), 2487-2490 (2014)
  • C. S. Menoni, S. Carbajo, I. D. Howlett, W. Chao, E. H. Anderson, A. V. Vinogradov, I. A. Artyukov, K. Buchanan, M. C. Marconi, J. J. Rocca, in X-Ray Lasers 2012, S. Sebban, J. Gautier, D. Ros, P. Zeitoun, Eds. (Springer International Publishing, 2014), vol. 147, chap. 30, pp. 185-192
  • S. Carbajo, I. D. Howlett, F. Brizuela, K. S. Buchanan, M. C. Marconi, W. Chao, E. H. Anderson, I. Artioukov, A. Vinogradov, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, Sequential single-shot imaging of nanoscale dynamic interactions with a table-top soft x-ray laser. Opt. Lett. 37, 2994-2996 (2012)
  • F. Brizuela, I. D. Howlett, S. Carbajo, D. Peterson, A. Sakdinawat, L. Yanwei, D. T. Attwood, M. C. Marconi, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, Imaging at the Nanoscale With Practical Table-Top EUV Laser-Based Full-Field Microscopes. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of 18, 434-442 (2012)
  • C. S. Menoni, F. Brizuela, S. Carbajo, Y. Wang, D. Alessi, D. H. Martz, B. Luther, M. C. Marconi, J. J. Rocca, A. Sakdinawat, W. Chao, Y. W. Liu, E. H. Anderson, K. A. Goldberg, D. T. Attwood, A. V. Vinogradov, I. A. Artioukov, B. LaFontaine, in X-Ray Lasers 2010, J. Lee, C. Nam, K. Janulewicz, Eds. (Springer Netherlands, 2011), vol. 136, chap. 41, pp. 359-370
  • D. Howlett, F. Brizuela, S. Carbajo, D. Peterson, A. Sakdinawat, Y. Liu, D. T. Attwood, M. C. Marconi, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, Assessment of illumination characteristics of soft x-ray laser-based full-field microscopes, SPIE Proceedings (2011), vol. 8140, pp. 81405
  • S. Carbajo, I. D. Howlett, M. C. Marconi, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, Laser-based aerial microscope for at-wavelength characterization of extreme ultraviolet lithography masks, in IEEE Photonics, pp. 698-699 (2011)
  • F. Brizuela, S. Carbajo, A. Sakdinawat, D. Alessi, D. H. Martz, Y. Wang, B. Luther, K. A. Goldberg, I. Mochi, D. T. Attwood, B. La Fontaine, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, Extreme ultraviolet laser-based table-top aerial image metrology of lithographic masks. Opt. Express 18, 14467-14473 (2010)