Ultra-fast switching of light by absorption saturation in vacuum ultra-violet region

doi:10.1364/OE.17.023443

Ultra-fast switching of light by absorption saturation in vacuum ultra-violet region

Hitoki Yoneda, Yuichi Inubushi, Toshihiro Tanaka, Yuta Yamaguchi, Fumiya Sato, Shunsuke Morimoto, Taisuke Kumagai, Mitsuru Nagasono, Atsushi Higashiya, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Haruhiko Ohashi, Hiroaki Kimura, Hikaru Kitamura, and Ryosuke Kodama »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 26, pp. 23443-23448 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.023443

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Advances in free electron lasers producing high energy photons [Nat. Photonics 2(9), 555-559 (2008)] are expected to open up a new science of nonlinear optics of high energy photons. Specifically, lasers of photon energy higher than the plasma frequency of a metal can show new interaction features because they can penetrate deeply into metals without strong reflection. Here we show the observation of ultra-fast switching of vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) light caused by saturable absorption of a solid metal target. A strong gating is observed at energy fluences above 6J/cm² at wavelength of 51nm with tin metal thin layers. The ratio of the transmission at high intensity to low intensity is typically greater than 100:1. This means we can design new nonlinear photonic devices such as auto-correlator and pulse slicer for the VUV region.

OCIS Codes
(140.7240) Lasers and laser optics : UV, EUV, and X-ray lasers
(190.4720) Nonlinear optics : Optical nonlinearities of condensed matter
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(320.7130) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast processes in condensed matter, including semiconductors

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Ultrafast Optics

History
Original Manuscript: September 30, 2009
Revised Manuscript: November 15, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: November 19, 2009
Published: December 7, 2009

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Hitoki Yoneda, Yuichi Inubushi, Toshihiro Tanaka, Yuta Yamaguchi, Fumiya Sato, Shunsuke Morimoto, Taisuke Kumagai, Mitsuru Nagasono, Atsushi Higashiya, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Haruhiko Ohashi, Hiroaki Kimura, Hikaru Kitamura, and Ryosuke Kodama, "Ultra-fast switching of light by absorption saturation in vacuum ultra-violet region," Opt. Express 17, 23443-23448 (2009)
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Reinholz, H.
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Rosmej, F.
Saksl, K.
Schott, R.
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Shirasawa, K.
Sobierajski, R.
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Takahashi, S.
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Appl. Phys. B

A. Penzkofer, “Passive Q-swithing and Mode-Locking for the generation of nanosecond to femtosecond pulses,” Appl. Phys. B 46(1), 43–60 (1988). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. Lett.

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At. Data Nucl. Data Tables

B. L. Henke, E. M. Gullikson, and J. C. Davis, “X-ray Interactions: Photoabsorption, Scattering, Transmission, ans Reflection at E=50-30,000eV, Z=1-92,” At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 54(2), 181–342 (1993). [CrossRef]

Eur. Phys. J. D

H. Kitamura, “Cluster-model study on the K-shell excited states of crystalline lithium under intense laser irradiation,” Eur. Phys. J. D 52(1-3), 147–150 (2009). [CrossRef]

Nat. Photonics

T. Shintake, H. Tanaka, T. Hara, T. Tanaka, K. Togawa, M. Yabashi, Y. Otake, Y. Asano, T. Bizen, T. Fukui, S. Goto, A. Higashiya, T. Hirono, N. Hosoda, T. Inagaki, S. Inoue, M. Ishii, Y. Kim, H. Kimura, M. Kitamura, T. Kobayashi, H. Maesaka, T. Masuda, S. Matsui, T. Matsushita, X. Maréchal, M. Nagasono, H. Ohashi, T. Ohata, T. Ohshima, K. Onoe, K. Shirasawa, T. Takagi, S. Takahashi, M. Takeuchi, K. Tamasaku, R. Tanaka, Y. Tanaka, T. Tanikawa, T. Togashi, S. Wu, A. Yamashita, K. Yanagida, C. Zhang, H. Kitamura, and T. Ishikawa, “A compact free-electron laser for generating coherent radiation in the extreme ultraviolet region,” Nat. Photonics 2(9), 555–559 (2008). [CrossRef]

Nat. Phys.

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2009, Nagler, Nat. Phys.
2008, Shintake, Nat. Photonics
1993, Henke, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables
1988, Penzkofer, Appl. Phys. B
1986, Kramer, Phys. Rev. A
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