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Carrier-envelope-phase-independent field sampling of single-cycle transients using Homochromatic Attosecond Streaking

Optics 2024-09-26 v1

Abstract

The recent development of Homochromatic Attosecond Streaking (HAS) has enabled a novel, highly precise method for ultrafast metrology of attosecond electron pulses as well as for real-time sampling of the instantaneous field waveforms of light transients. Here, we evaluate the potential of HAS as a method for precisely sampling the field waveform of non-phase-stabilized, single-cycle transients of light. We show that the extreme nonlinearity of field emission allows our technique to isolate and track the waveform of a single carrier-envelope phase (CEP) setting whose field dynamics results in the most energetic electron cutoff. Our results establish HAS as a robust, compact, all-solid-state method for characterizing light fields with attosecond-level precision and as a powerful tool in light field synthesis.

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@article{arxiv.2409.16759,
  title  = {Carrier-envelope-phase-independent field sampling of single-cycle transients using Homochromatic Attosecond Streaking},
  author = {H. Y. Kim and Z. Pi and E. Goulielmakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16759},
  year   = {2024}
}