Time-evolution of electron density in plasma measured by high-order harmonic generation

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Time-evolution of electron density in plasma measured by high-order harmonic generation

Hua Yang, Peng Liu, Haihe Lu, Xiaochun Ge, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 17, pp. 19449-19454 (2012)
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We propose a new method of measuring the electron density in plasma by high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of intense two-color femtosecond (fs) laser. As the 800 nm fundamental beam is introduced after its second harmonic generation (SHG) beam, the recovery of HHG by the fundamental pulses at a delay of ~40 ps indicates the decay time of the generated plasma. The electron-ion recombination rate and electron density decay are revealed by fitting the harmonic emission to the model that accounts for depletion of neutral atoms, phase mismatch and re-absorption of HHG.

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(350.5400) Other areas of optics : Plasmas
(020.2649) Atomic and molecular physics : Strong field laser physics

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Original Manuscript: June 26, 2012
Revised Manuscript: July 19, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: July 27, 2012
Published: August 9, 2012

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Hua Yang, Peng Liu, Haihe Lu, Xiaochun Ge, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu, "Time-evolution of electron density in plasma measured by high-order harmonic generation," Opt. Express 20, 19449-19454 (2012)
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Murnane, M. M.
Mysyrowicz, A.
Niikura, H.
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Prade, B.
Rundquist, A. R.
Salin, F.
Salmon, E.
Sennhauser, E. S.
Smirnova, O.
Starikovskaia, S. M.
Starikovskii, A. Y.
Strueder, L.
Tobey, R.
Tzortzakis, S.
Villeneuve, D. M.
Wang, Z. H.
Warman, J. M.
Wei, Z. Y.
Weiman, S.
Xie, J. G.
Xie, X. H.
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Yuan, X. H.
Yudin, G. L.
Zeng, Z. N.
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Zheng, Z. Y.
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Appl. Phys. B

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[1] L. Formmhold, M. A. Biondi, and F. J. Mehr, “Electron–temperature dependence of electron-ion recombination in Neon,” Phys. Rev.165(1), 44–52 (1968). [CrossRef]

[2] F. J. Mehr and M. A. Biondi, “Electron-temperature dependence of electron-ion recombination in Argon,” Phys. Rev.176(1), 322–326 (1968). [CrossRef]

[3] I. M. Littlewood, M. C. Cornell, and K. J. Nygaard, “Electron-ion recombination in gas mixtures of helium, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide,” J. Chem. Phys.81(3), 1264–1270 (1984). [CrossRef]

[4] J. M. Warman, E. S. Sennhauser, and D. A. Armstrong, “Three body electron-ion recombination in molecular gases,” J. Chem. Phys.70(2), 995–999 (1979). [CrossRef]

[5] J. G. Xie, B. Luo, and D. Lo, “Electron-ion recombination in high pressure Ar/Xe mixtures,” J. Phys. At. Mol. Opt. Phys.24(13), 3077–3089 (1991). [CrossRef]

[6] N. L. Aleksandrov, S. V. Kindysheva, A. A. Kirpichnikov, I. N. Kosarev, S. M. Starikovskaia, and A. Y. Starikovskii, “Plasma decay in N2,CO2 and H2O excited by high-voltage nanosecond discharge,” J. Phys. D Appl. Phys.40(15), 4493–4502 (2007). [CrossRef]

[7] S. Tzortzakis, B. Prade, M. Franco, and A. Mysyrowicz, “Time-evolution of the plasma channel at the trail of a self-guided IR femtosecond laser pulse in air,” Opt. Commun.181(1-3), 123–127 (2000). [CrossRef]

[8] J. S. Liu, Z. L. Duan, Z. N. Zeng, X. H. Xie, Y. P. Deng, R. X. Li, Z. Z. Xu, and S. L. Chin, “Time-resolved investigation of low-density plasma channels produced by a kilohertz femtosecond laser in air,” Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys.72(2), 026412 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] P. B. Corkum and F. Krausz, “Attosecond science,” Nat. Phys.3(6), 381–387 (2007). [CrossRef]

[10] N. Dudovich, O. Smirnova, J. Levesque, Y. Mairesse, M. Yu. Ivanov, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum, “Measuring and controlling the birth of attosecond XUV pulses,” Nat. Phys.2(11), 781–786 (2006). [CrossRef]

[11] H. Niikura, N. Dudovich, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum, “Mapping molecular orbital symmetry on high-order harmonic generation spectrum using two-color laser fields,” Phys. Rev. Lett.105(5), 053003 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] G. L. Yudin and M. Yu. Ivanov, “Nonadiabatic tunnel ionization: Looking inside a laser cycle,” Phys. Rev. A64(1), 013409 (2001). [CrossRef]

[13] M. A. Biondi, “Studies of the mechanism of electron-ion recombination. I,” Phys. Rev.129(3), 1181–1188 (1963). [CrossRef]

[14] C. G. Durfee, A. R. Rundquist, S. Backus, C. Herne, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, “Phase matching of high-order harmonics in hollow waveguides,” Phys. Rev. Lett.83(11), 2187–2190 (1999). [CrossRef]

[15] A. Paul, R. A. Bartels, R. Tobey, H. Green, S. Weiman, I. P. Christov, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and S. Backus, “Quasi-phase-matched generation of coherent extreme-ultraviolet light,” Nature421(6918), 51–54 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[16] E. Constant, D. Garzella, P. Breger, E. Mével, C. Dorrer, C. Le Blanc, F. Salin, and P. Agostini, “Optimizing high harmonic generation in absorbing gases: model and experiment,” Phys. Rev. Lett.82(8), 1668–1671 (1999). [CrossRef]

[17] G. Marcus, W. Helml, X. Gu, Y. Deng, R. Hartmann, T. Kobayashi, L. Strueder, R. Kienberger, and F. Krausz, “Subfemtosecond K-Shell Excitation with a Few-Cycle Infrared Laser Field,” Phys. Rev. Lett.108(2), 023201 (2012). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[18] Z. Q. Hao, J. Zhang, Y. T. Li, X. Lu, X. H. Yuan, Z. Y. Zheng, Z. H. Wang, W. J. Ling, and Z. Y. Wei, “Prolongation of the fluorescence lifetime of plasma channels in air induced by femtosecond laser pulses,” Appl. Phys. B80(4-5), 627–630 (2005). [CrossRef]

[19] B. Zhou, S. Akturk, B. Prade, Y. B. André, A. Houard, Y. Liu, M. Franco, C. D’Amico, E. Salmon, Z. Q. Hao, N. Lascoux, and A. Mysyrowicz, “Revival of femtosecond laser plasma filaments in air by a nanosecond laser,” Opt. Express17(14), 11450–11456 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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