Published May 2007 | Version v1
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Temporal confinement and enhancement of high-order harmonic emission with a synthesized laser field

Creators

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800 (China)
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Optical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062 (China)

Description

We demonstrated that a synthesized laser field consisting of an intense long (45 fs, multi-optical-cycle) laser pulse and a weak short (7 fs, few-optical-cycle) laser pulse can control the electron dynamics and high-order harmonic generation in argon, and generate extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum towards the production of a single strong attosecond pulse. The long pulse offers a large amplitude field, and the short pulse creates a temporally narrow enhancement of the laser field and a gate for the highest energy harmonic emission. This scheme paves the way to generate intense isolated attosecond pulses with strong multi-optical-cycle laser pulses

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.051802;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051802-051802.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39011203
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; ARGON; CONFINEMENT; ELECTRONS; EMISSION; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER RADIATION; PULSES
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; FREQUENCY MIXING; GASES; LEPTONS; NONMETALS; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society