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Neural network speeds tuning of attosecond light pulses for physics experiments

Phys · · 482 words · By Oleg Sherbakov

Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics developed a method using a neural network to optimize the parameters for generating attosecond light pulses. This approach accelerates the process compared to traditional, computationally intensive simulations by allowing the model to rapidly predict key pulse properties like ellipticity. The technique is noted for its efficiency and potential application in other fields requiring accelerated physical simulations.

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“Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed an approach that helps optimize the parameters of a laser-plasma source of attosecond pulses—ultrashort flashes of light used in physics experiments.”
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The claim is directly supported by a web search result mentioning researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics developing an optimization approach for attosecond pulse sources. This constitutes corroboration from the search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — It was later renamed as the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics. The current name was adopted in 1999 when the institute was merged with the Changchun Institute of Physics, headed by Xu X…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changchun_Institute_of_Optics,…
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web search NEUTRAL — Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed an approach that helps optimize the parameters of a laser-plasma source of attosecond pulses—ultrashort…
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-neural-network-tuning-attoseco…
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web search NEUTRAL — Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics test their laser detector over the South China Sea.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3030935/chin…
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“The results were published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The homotopy analysis method (HAM) is a semi-analytical technique to solve nonlinear ordinary/partial differential equations. The homotopy analysis method employs the concept of the homotopy from top…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hyperchaotic system is a dynamical system with a bounded attractor set, on which there are at least two positive Lyapunov exponents. Since on an attractor, the sum of Lyapunov exponents is non-posit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations are methods used to find numerical approximations to the solutions of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Their use is also known as "numerica…
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“Attosecond pulse sources are used as research tools.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that attosecond pulse sources are used as research tools, citing applications in ultrafast spectroscopy, studies of magnetic materials, chiral molecules, and electron dynamics in matter.
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web search NEUTRAL — Attosecond pulse sources are used as research tools. They are applied in ultrafast spectroscopy, studies of magnetic materials, chiral molecules, and electron dynamics in matter. The goal of this work…
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-neural-network-tuning-attoseco…
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web search NEUTRAL — The ability to generate ultrashort laser pulses of some-ten-attosecond duration has given rise to a new research field, attosecond science, to whose development this Collection is dedicated.
https://journals.aps.org/pra/attosecond-science
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web search NEUTRAL — Research Article.High-repetition rate attosecond pulse sources are indispensable tools for time-resolved studies of electron dynamics, such as coincidence spectroscopy and experiments with high demand…
https://www.researching.cn/ArticlePdf/m00106/2022/2/1/982378…
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“They are applied in ultrafast spectroscopy, studies of magnetic materials, chiral molecules, and electron dynamics in matter.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Attosecond pulse sources are used as research tools. They are applied in ultrafast spectroscopy, studies of magnetic materials, chiral molecules, and electron dynamics in matter.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-neural-network-tuning-attoseco…
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web search NEUTRAL — From Molecular to Electronic Chirality. The Challenge of Attosecond Circularly Polarized Pulses. How the ETH Zürich Team Succeeded.That step is crucial for catching electron dynamics in chiral molecul…
https://www.ico-optics.org/attosecond-pulses-reveal-ultrafas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules. Femtosecond molecular dynamics.After this, the candidate will employ these pulses to study ultrafast magnetic properties in solids where the underling physic…
https://www.attosecond.fisi.polimi.it/work-with-us/
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“In practice, selecting parameters for these regimes requires computationally intensive modeling: the plasma-mirror response depends on multiple laser-pulse characteristics and target properties, while direct particle-in-cell simulations take substantial computing time.”
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The necessity for computationally intensive modeling due to plasma-mirror response dependence and the cost of PIC simulations is stated in the web search results, confirming the complexity described.
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web search NEUTRAL — In practice, selecting parameters for these regimes requires computationally intensive modeling: the plasma-mirror response depends on multiple laser-pulse characteristics and target properties ...
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-neural-network-tuning-attoseco…
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web search NEUTRAL — Optimizing the polarization of attosecond emission from relativistic laser-foil interactions is hindered by a non-convex response surface and the computational cost of particle-in-cell (PIC) scans. We…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100757042…
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web search NEUTRAL — Panel a displays the experimental spatio-temporal reconstruction of the E -field E (x, t) of an attosecond pulse generated in the ROM regime, resulting from the superposition of harmonics 9 to 14, in …
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7611525/
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“In the new study, the researchers combined physical modeling with machine learning.”
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Two distinct web search results confirm that researchers combined physical modeling with machine learning in the context of this research area. The general concept is also supported by a third source.
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web search NEUTRAL — Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
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web search NEUTRAL — In the new study, the researchers combined physical modeling with machine learning.Once trained, the model can evaluate new configurations much faster and be used inside an optimization loop, leaving …
https://www.skoltech.ru/en/news/skoltech-researchers-use-neu…
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web search NEUTRAL — By combining physics-based methods with machine learning, a team at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems at TU Graz is developing models that deliver better results despi…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cd-lab-tu-graz-incorporates-p…
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“They trained a neural network on the results of one-dimensional PIC simulations to rapidly predict the ellipticity of the reflected attosecond pulse—one of the key parameters of its polarization—depending on the conditions of the problem.”
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The claim is directly and specifically confirmed by a web search result detailing the training of a neural network on 1D PIC simulations to predict the ellipticity of the reflected attosecond pulse based on problem conditions. This is corroborated by the context of the search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — They trained a neural network on the results of one-dimensional PIC simulations to rapidly predict the ellipticity of the reflected attosecond pulse—one of the key parameters of its polarization—depen…
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-neural-network-tuning-attoseco…
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web search NEUTRAL — Predicting the three-dimensional structure that a protein will adopt based solely on its amino acid sequence—the structure prediction component of the ‘protein folding problem’⁸—has been an important …
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403216596_Learning_…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tinker With a Neural Network Right Here in Your Browser. Don’t Worry, You Can’t Break It. We Promise.This is the output from one neuron. Hover to see it larger. The outputs are mixed with varying weig…
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
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“The model used a multilayer perceptron with Fourier encoding of the input parameters.”
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The web search results provide definitions and discussions regarding both 'multilayer perceptron' (MLP) and 'Fourier encoding' in the context of neural networks, supporting the components of the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — If a multilayer perceptron has a linear activation function in all neurons, that is, a linear function that maps the weighted inputs to the output of each neuron, then linear algebra shows that any nu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Fourier encoding of numerical features.Using Fourier analysis Rahman et al. investigated spectral features (metrics in frequency domain) of multilayer perceptron (MLP) with ReLU activation function.
https://sair.synerise.com/fourier-feature-encoding/
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web search NEUTRAL — A multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a field of artificial neural network (ANN).Implement forward propagation in multilayer perceptron (MLP)Understand how the capacity of a model is affected by underfitti…
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“Once trained, the model can evaluate new configurations much faster and be used inside an optimization loop, leaving only a limited number of precise checks to the full physical simulation.”
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“This makes the search for promising regimes significantly more efficient than direct brute-force parameter sweeps.”
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The claim describes the benefit of the method (efficiency over brute-force sweeps), but no evidence was retrieved from the live search results to confirm this specific comparative advantage.
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“According to the authors, the proposed approach makes it possible to identify parameter sets that yield higher ellipticity of the reflected pulse and demonstrates stable performance across varying laser-pulse characteristics and target parameters.”
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“The method is also scalable and can be extended to higher-dimensional parameter spaces.”
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“M. Smorkalov et al, Learning the nonlinear plasma-mirror response: Fast surrogate modeling and optimization of ellipticity of attosecond pulses, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2026.109994”
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