Published November 7, 2007 | Version v1
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Isolated Attosecond Pulses using a Detuned Second-harmonic Field

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Calculations are presented for the generation of an isolated attosecond pulse in a multicycle two-color strong-field regime. We show that the recollision of the electron wave packet can be confined to half an optical cycle using pulses of up to 40 fs in duration. The scheme is proven to be efficient using two intense beams, one producing a strong field at ω and the other a strong field detuned from 2ω. The slight detuning (delta)ω of the second harmonic is used to break the symmetry of the electric field over many optical cycles and provides a coherent control for the formation of an isolated attosecond pulse

Availability note (English)

Available from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-12912.pdf; http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-12912.html; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/919431-yPQDPw/

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URL
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-12912.pdf; http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-12912.html; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/919431-yPQDPw/;
DOI
10.1364/OL.32.003134;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
3 p.
Report number
SLAC-PUB--12912

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
40004712
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CALCULATION METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; HARMONICS; PULSE GENERATORS; SYMMETRY; TUNING; WAVE PACKETS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUIPMENT; FERMIONS; FUNCTION GENERATORS; LEPTONS; OSCILLATIONS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76SF00515
Notes
doi 10.1364/OL.32.003134; Submitted to Optics Letters
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)