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Attosecond science is based on steering of electrons with the electric field of well-controlled femtosecond laser pulses. It has led to, for example, the generation of XUV light pulses with a duration in the sub-100-attosecond regime, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 Michael Krüger , Markus Schenk , Peter Hommelhoff

The generation of isolated attosecond pulses with high efficiency and high beam quality is essential for attosec- ond spectroscopy. We numerically investigate the supercontinuum generation in a neutral rare-gas medium driven by a two-color…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhe Wang , Weiyi Hong , Qingbin Zhang , Shaoyi Wang , Peixiang Lu

The generation of ultrashort light pulses is essential for the advancement of attosecond science. Here, we show that attosecond pulses approaching the Fourier limit can be generated through optimized optical driving of tunneling particles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Shohei Imai , Atsushi Ono

Attosecond pulses provide unique opportunities for studies of time-resolved electron dynamics. However, focusing these pulses, typically ranging from the vacuum ultraviolet to the soft-X-ray region, remains challenging. Conventional…

We develop an analytical model for ultraintense attosecond pulse emission in the highly relativistic laser-plasma interaction. In this model, the attosecond pulse is emitted by a strongly compressed electron layer around the instant when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Suo Tang , Naveen Kumar

Attosecond bursts of coherent synchrotron-like radiation are found when driving ultrathin relativistic electron disks in a quasi-one-dimensional regime of wakefield acceleration, in which the laser waist is larger than the wake wavelength.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Y. Li , Z. M. Sheng , M. Chen , L. L. Yu , J. Meyer-ter-Vehn , W. B. Mori , J. Zhang

Many experiments in attosecond science will benefit from attosecond pulses at high repetition rates with sufficient photon flux for pump-probe experiments. We use 7fs, 800nm pulses from a non-collinear optical parametric chirped pulse…

Attosecond x-ray pulses play a crucial role in the study of ultrafast phenomena occurring within inner and valence electrons. To achieve attosecond time-resolution studies and gain control over electronic wavefunctions, it is crucial to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Hao Sun , Xiaofan Wang , Weiqing Zhang

A thin and dense plasma layer is created when a sufficiently strong laser pulse impinges on a solid target. The nonlinearity introduced by the time-dependent electron density leads to the generation of harmonics. The pulse duration of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Bauer , R. R. E. Salomaa , P. Mulser

We report on the generation of single-photon pulse trains at a repetition rate of up to 1 GHz. We achieve this high speed by modulating the external voltage applied on an electrically contacted quantum dot microlens, which is optically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 A. Schlehahn , R. Schmidt , C. Hopfmann , J. -H. Schulze , A. Strittmatter , T. Heindel , L. Gantz , E. R. Schmidgall , D. Gershoni , S. Reitzenstein

Generation of attosecond bunches of energetic electrons offers significant potential from ultrafast physics to novel radiation sources. However, it is still a great challenge to stably produce such electron beams with lasers, since the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Li-Xiang Hu , Tong-Pu Yu , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Jorge Vieira , De-Bin Zou , Yan Yin , Paul McKenna , Fu-Qiu Shao

Coherent control over electron dynamics in atoms and molecules using high-intensity circularly-polarized laser pulses gives rise to current loops, resulting in the emission of magnetic fields. We propose and demonstrate with ab-initio…

In this paper, we present the analytical theory of attosecond pulse formation via optical modulation of an active medium of the hydrogen-like C5+ plasma-based X-ray laser at 3.4 nm wavelength in the "water window" range, taking into account…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 V. A. Antonov , I. R. Khairulin , Olga Kocharovskaya

Advances of high intensity lasers have opened up the field of strong field physics and led to a broad range of technological applications. Recent x ray laser sources and optics development makes it possible to obtain extremely high…

This study demonstrates the potential to generate a soft X-ray single-cycle attosecond pulse using a single-cycle mid-infrared pulse from the advanced dual-chirped optical parametric amplification. Supercontinuum high harmonic (HH) spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-07 Kaito Nishimiya , Feng Wang , Pengfei Lan , Eiji J. Takahashi

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulses, generated by a process known as laser-induced electron recollision, are a key ingredient for attosecond metrology, providing a tool to precisely initiate and probe sub-femtosecond dynamics in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Yunpei Deng , Zhinan Zeng , Zhengmao Jia , Pavel Komm , Yinhui Zheng , Xiaochun Ge , Ruxin Li , Gilad Marcus

We propose a concept for production of high power coherent attosecond pulses in X-ray range. An approach is based on generation of 8th harmonic of radiation in a multistage HGHG FEL (high gain high harmonic free electron laser)…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

We theoretically investigate the generation of higher harmonics and the construction of a single attosecond pulse by means of two oppositely polarized sinc-shaped driver pulses. In comparison to a few-cycle Gaussian pulse of the same…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Rambabu Rajpoot , Amol R. Holkundkar , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Collision between relativistic electron sheets and counter-propagating laser pulses is recognized as a promising way to produce intense attosecond X-rays through coherent Thomson backscattering (TBS). In a double-layer scheme, the electrons…

Parametric amplification of attosecond coherent pulses around 100 eV at the single-atom level is demonstrated for the first time by using the 3D time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation in high-harmonic generation processes from excited…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 C. Serrat , J. Seres , E. Seres , T-H. Dinh , N. Hasegawa , M. Nishikino , S. Namba