Schemes for generation of isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization
Abstract
Here, we propose and analyze two schemes capable of generating isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization, based on results of numerical simulations. Both schemes utilize the generation of circularly polarized high-order-harmonics by crossing two circularly polarized counter-rotating pulses in a noncollinear geometry. Our results show that in this setup isolation of a single attosecond pulse can be achieved either by restricting the driver pulse duration to a few cycles or by temporally delaying the two crossed driver pulses. We further propose to compensate the temporal walk-off between the pulses across the focal spot and increasing the conversion efficiency by using angular spatial chirp to provide perfectly matched pulse fronts. The isolation of pure circularly polarized attosecond pulses, along with the opportunity to select their central energy and helicity in the noncollinear technique, opens new perspectives from which to study ultrafast dynamics in chiral systems and magnetic materials.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States); Univ. of Salamanca (Spain)
- Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Salamanca (Spain)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; European Research Council (ERC); Junta de Castilla y Leon; Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain (MINECO); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1690341
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1249885
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-99ER14982; 328334; SA116U13; FIS2013-44174-P; FIS2015-71933-REDT; PHY-1125844; PHY-1068706; CNS-0821794
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; high-order harmonic generation; ultrafast phenomena; x-ray beams & optics; atomic gases; x-ray lasers; atomic orbital; bound states; dipole approximation; nonperturbative methods; plane wave; Schroedinger equation; strong-field approximation
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Hernández-García, C., Durfee, C. G., Hickstein, D. D., Popmintchev, T., Meier, A., Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Sola, I. J., Jaron-Becker, A., and Becker, A. Schemes for generation of isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.93.043855.
Hernández-García, C., Durfee, C. G., Hickstein, D. D., Popmintchev, T., Meier, A., Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Sola, I. J., Jaron-Becker, A., & Becker, A. Schemes for generation of isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.93.043855
Hernández-García, C., Durfee, C. G., Hickstein, D. D., Popmintchev, T., Meier, A., Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Sola, I. J., Jaron-Becker, A., and Becker, A. Thu .
"Schemes for generation of isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.93.043855. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1690341.
@article{osti_1690341,
title = {Schemes for generation of isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization},
author = {Hernández-García, C. and Durfee, C. G. and Hickstein, D. D. and Popmintchev, T. and Meier, A. and Murnane, M. M. and Kapteyn, H. C. and Sola, I. J. and Jaron-Becker, A. and Becker, A.},
abstractNote = {Here, we propose and analyze two schemes capable of generating isolated attosecond pulses of pure circular polarization, based on results of numerical simulations. Both schemes utilize the generation of circularly polarized high-order-harmonics by crossing two circularly polarized counter-rotating pulses in a noncollinear geometry. Our results show that in this setup isolation of a single attosecond pulse can be achieved either by restricting the driver pulse duration to a few cycles or by temporally delaying the two crossed driver pulses. We further propose to compensate the temporal walk-off between the pulses across the focal spot and increasing the conversion efficiency by using angular spatial chirp to provide perfectly matched pulse fronts. The isolation of pure circularly polarized attosecond pulses, along with the opportunity to select their central energy and helicity in the noncollinear technique, opens new perspectives from which to study ultrafast dynamics in chiral systems and magnetic materials.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.93.043855},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 4,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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