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Spatial control of extreme ultraviolet light with opto-optical phase modulation

Optics 2021-05-19 v1

Abstract

Extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) light is notoriously difficult to control due to its strong interaction cross-section with media. We demonstrate a method to overcome this problem by using Opto-Optical Modulation guided by a geometrical model to shape XUV light. A bell-shaped infrared light pulse is shown to imprint a trace of its intensity profile onto the XUV light in the far-field, such that a change in the intensity profile of the infrared pulse leads to a change in the shape of the far-field XUV light. The geometrical model assists the user in predicting the effect of a specific intensity profile of the infrared pulse, thus enabling a deterministic process.

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@article{arxiv.2103.00197,
  title  = {Spatial control of extreme ultraviolet light with opto-optical phase modulation},
  author = {Anna Olofsson and Emma Rose Simpson and Neven Ibrakovic and Samuel Bengtsson and Johan Mauritsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00197},
  year   = {2021}
}
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