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Title: Generation of Intense Low-Divergence Isolated Soft-X-Ray Attosecond Pulses in a Gas-Filled Waveguide Using Three-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses

Abstract

Isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in the soft-x-ray (SXR) region have been successfully produced via high-order harmonic generation in a gas medium at several laboratories, but pulse energies are much lower compared to the IAPs in the extreme ultraviolet. Here, we show that in a gas-filled hollow waveguide, an efficient gating method using a few-cycle three-color synthesizer is able to generate stronger SXR IAPs. We show that an 104-as IAP in the SXR region (central energy of 210 eV) with a higher pulse energy (0.9 nJ) and a lower divergence (within 1.5 mrad) can be generated with a three-color laser beam for input pulse energy at 0.62 mJ, under the condition of optimal gas pressure and waveguide length. The enhancement of the IAP is attributed to favorable phase matching of SXR high harmonics caused by the evolution of the three-color waveform during its propagation in the waveguide, which can be understood by analyzing the time shift of the waveform due to the interplay of the waveguide mode, atomic dispersion, and plasma dispersion. We check that the gating method is quite robust with respect to the phase jitter in the waveform. The advantage of this method is further demonstrated by comparing themore » generation of SXR high harmonics and attosecond pulses with two other schemes: the three-color waveform in a gas cell and a previously optimized two-color waveform in a gas-filled waveguide.« less

Authors:
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  1. Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
  2. Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1979659
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-86ER13491; 91950102; 11774175; 11834004
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Applied
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Physics; atom optics; high-order harmonic generation; photonics; ultrafast optics; ultrafast phenomena; waveguides; attosecond laser irradiation; x-ray techniques

Citation Formats

Li, Baochang, Tang, Xiangyu, Wang, Kan, Zhang, Chi, Guan, Zhong, Wang, Bincheng, Lin, C. D., and Jin, Cheng. Generation of Intense Low-Divergence Isolated Soft-X-Ray Attosecond Pulses in a Gas-Filled Waveguide Using Three-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.18.034048.
Li, Baochang, Tang, Xiangyu, Wang, Kan, Zhang, Chi, Guan, Zhong, Wang, Bincheng, Lin, C. D., & Jin, Cheng. Generation of Intense Low-Divergence Isolated Soft-X-Ray Attosecond Pulses in a Gas-Filled Waveguide Using Three-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.18.034048
Li, Baochang, Tang, Xiangyu, Wang, Kan, Zhang, Chi, Guan, Zhong, Wang, Bincheng, Lin, C. D., and Jin, Cheng. Mon . "Generation of Intense Low-Divergence Isolated Soft-X-Ray Attosecond Pulses in a Gas-Filled Waveguide Using Three-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.18.034048. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1979659.
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title = {Generation of Intense Low-Divergence Isolated Soft-X-Ray Attosecond Pulses in a Gas-Filled Waveguide Using Three-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses},
author = {Li, Baochang and Tang, Xiangyu and Wang, Kan and Zhang, Chi and Guan, Zhong and Wang, Bincheng and Lin, C. D. and Jin, Cheng},
abstractNote = {Isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in the soft-x-ray (SXR) region have been successfully produced via high-order harmonic generation in a gas medium at several laboratories, but pulse energies are much lower compared to the IAPs in the extreme ultraviolet. Here, we show that in a gas-filled hollow waveguide, an efficient gating method using a few-cycle three-color synthesizer is able to generate stronger SXR IAPs. We show that an 104-as IAP in the SXR region (central energy of 210 eV) with a higher pulse energy (0.9 nJ) and a lower divergence (within 1.5 mrad) can be generated with a three-color laser beam for input pulse energy at 0.62 mJ, under the condition of optimal gas pressure and waveguide length. The enhancement of the IAP is attributed to favorable phase matching of SXR high harmonics caused by the evolution of the three-color waveform during its propagation in the waveguide, which can be understood by analyzing the time shift of the waveform due to the interplay of the waveguide mode, atomic dispersion, and plasma dispersion. We check that the gating method is quite robust with respect to the phase jitter in the waveform. The advantage of this method is further demonstrated by comparing the generation of SXR high harmonics and attosecond pulses with two other schemes: the three-color waveform in a gas cell and a previously optimized two-color waveform in a gas-filled waveguide.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevapplied.18.034048},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 3,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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