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Ultrafast Polarization-Tunable Monochromatic Extreme Ultraviolet Source at High-Repetition-Rate

Optics 2022-07-13 v1

Abstract

We report on the development of a high-order harmonic generation (HHG)-based ultrafast high-repetition-rate (250 kHz) monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (21.6 eV) source with polarization tunability, specifically designed for multi-modal dichroism in time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Driving HHG using an annular beam allows us to spatially separate the high-power 515 nm driving laser from the XUV beamlet while preserving the linear polarization axis angle tunability. This enables controlling the polarization state of the XUV radiation with a fixed all-reflective phase-shifter. This scheme leads to a source brightness of 5.7×\times1012^{12} photons/s at 21.6 eV (up to 4×\times1011^{11} photons/s on target) with ellipticities as high as 90%\%.

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@article{arxiv.2205.04705,
  title  = {Ultrafast Polarization-Tunable Monochromatic Extreme Ultraviolet Source at High-Repetition-Rate},
  author = {Antoine Comby and Debobrata Rajak and Dominique Descamps and Stéphane Petit and Valérie Blanchet and Yann Mairesse and Jérome Gaudin and Samuel Beaulieu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04705},
  year   = {2022}
}