Multi-cycle laser-driven broadband supercontinuum with a modulated polarization gating

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Multi-cycle laser-driven broadband supercontinuum with a modulated polarization gating

Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu, Pengfei Lan, Weiyi Hong, and Zhenyu Yang »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 13, pp. 9795-9803 (2008)
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We propose a method to generate broadband supercontinuum with a modulated polarization gating in the multi-cycle regime. The polarization gating at 1600 nm is employed to intensify the ellipticity dependence of high harmonic signal, and the adding second harmonic (SH) field is used for modulating ionization ratio between the driving field half-cycles. It is shown that longer driving pulses (6 optical cycles, 32.4 fs) can be applied to confine the efficient recollision of electron wave packet to half an optical cycle. The produced bandwidth of the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) supercontinuum is about 280 eV, corresponding to a fourier-transform-limited pulse of 10 as. In addition, an attosecond pulse of about 100 as with tunable wavelength can be straightforwardly obtained just by filtering different range of the spectrum.

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(190.4160) Nonlinear optics : Multiharmonic generation
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(300.6560) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, x-ray

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Ultrafast Optics

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Original Manuscript: April 1, 2008
Revised Manuscript: May 8, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: June 6, 2008
Published: June 18, 2008

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Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu, Pengfei Lan, Weiyi Hong, and Zhenyu Yang, "Multi-cycle laser-driven broadband supercontinuum with a modulated polarization gating," Opt. Express 16, 9795-9803 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-13-9795

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J. Mod Opt.

B. Shan, S. Ghimire, and Z. Chang, "Generation of the attosecond extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum by a polarization gating," J. Mod Opt. 52, 277-283 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

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Nat. Phys.

N. Dudovich, O. Smirnova, J. Levesqur, Y. Mairesse, M. Yu. Ivanov, D. M. Villeneve and P. B. Corkum, "Measuring and controlling the birth of attosecond XUV pulses," Nat. Phys. 2, 781-786 (2006). [CrossRef]

Nature

A. Baltu¢ ska, Th. Udem, M. Uiberacker, M. Hentschel, E. Goulielmakis, Ch. Gohle, R. Holzwarth, V. S. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, T. W. H¢ ansch, and F. Krausz, "Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields," Nature 421, 611-615 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nature (London)

R. Klenberger, E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, F. Bammer, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz, "Atomic transient recorder," Nature (London) 427, 817-821 (2004). [CrossRef]

Nature(London)

P. Tzallas, D. Charalambidis, N. A. Papadogiannis, K. Witte, and G. D. Tsakiris, "Direct observation of attosecond light bunching," Nature(London) 426, 267-271 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Opt. Lett.

Phys. Lett. A

Gy. Farkas and Cs. Toth, "Proposal for attosecond light pulse generation using laser induced multiple-harmonic conversion processes in rare gases," Phys. Lett. A 168, 447-450 (1992). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

P. Lan, P. Lu,W. Cao,Y. Li, and X. Wang, "Isolated sub-100-as pulse generation via controlling electron dynamics," Phys. Rev. A 76, 011402(R) (2007). [CrossRef]
P. Lan, P. Lu, W. Cao, Y. Li, and X. Wang, "Attosecond ionization gating for isolated attosecond electron wave packet and broadband attosecond xuv pulses," Phys. Rev. A 76, 051801 (2007). [CrossRef]
Z. Chang, "Single attosecond pulse and xuv supercontinuum in the high-order harmonic plateau," Phys. Rev. A 70, 043802 (2004). [CrossRef]
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Phys. Rev. Lett.

R. L-Martens, K. Varju, P. Johnsson, J. Mauritsson, Y. Mairesse, and P. Salieres, "Amplitude and Phase Control of Attosecond Light Pulses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 033001 (2005). [CrossRef]
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J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, E. Gustafsson, A. L???Huillier, K. J. Schafer, and M. B. Gaarde, "Attosecond Pulse Trains Generated Using Two Color Laser Fields," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013001 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Science

Y. Mairesse, A. de Bohan, L. J. Frasinski, H. Merdji, L. C. Dinu, P. Monchicourt, P. Breger, M. Kovacev, R. Taieb, B. Carrec, H. G. Muller, P. Agostini, and P. Salieres, "Attosecond Synchronization of High-Harmonic Soft X-rays" Science 302, 1540-1543 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Sov. Phys. JETP

M. V. Ammesov, N. B. Delone, and V. P. Krainov, "Tunnel ionization of complex atoms and of atomic ions in an alternating electromagnetic field" Sov. Phys. JETP 64, 1191-1194 (1986).

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