Helicity-selective phase-matching and quasi-phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics: towards chiral attosecond pulses
Abstract
Phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics driven by counter-rotating bichromatic lasers was recently predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. In that work, phase matching was analyzed by assuming that the total energy, spin angular momentum and linear momentum of the photons participating in the process are conserved. Here we propose a new perspective on phase matching of circularly polarized high harmonics. We derive an extended phase matching condition by requiring a new propagation matching condition between the classical vectorial bi-chromatic laser pump and harmonics fields. This allows us to include the influence of the laser pulse envelopes on phase matching. We find that the helicity dependent phase matching facilitates generation of high harmonics beams with a high degree of chirality. Indeed, we present an experimentally measured chiral spectrum that can support a train of attosecond pulses with a high degree of circular polarization. Moreover, while the degree of circularity of the most intense pulse approaches unity, all other pulses exhibit reduced circularity. This feature suggests the possibility of using a train of attosecond pulses as an isolated attosecond probe for chiral-sensitive experiments.
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- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USA–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF); Israel Science Foundation; German Research Foundation (DFG)
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- 1254065
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1254067; OSTI ID: 1435718; OSTI ID: 1681041
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- SC0002002; 225/14
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- Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
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- Journal Name: Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Journal Volume: 49 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0953-4075
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- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Circularly polarized high harmonic generation; phase matching; ultrafast chiral physics; attosecond pulses
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Kfir, Ofer, Grychtol, Patrik, Turgut, Emrah, Knut, Ronny, Zusin, Dmitriy, Fleischer, Avner, Bordo, Eliyahu, Fan, Tingting, Popmintchev, Dimitar, Popmintchev, Tenio, Kapteyn, Henry, Murnane, Margaret, and Cohen, Oren. Helicity-selective phase-matching and quasi-phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics: towards chiral attosecond pulses. United Kingdom: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/49/12/123501.
Kfir, Ofer, Grychtol, Patrik, Turgut, Emrah, Knut, Ronny, Zusin, Dmitriy, Fleischer, Avner, Bordo, Eliyahu, Fan, Tingting, Popmintchev, Dimitar, Popmintchev, Tenio, Kapteyn, Henry, Murnane, Margaret, & Cohen, Oren. Helicity-selective phase-matching and quasi-phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics: towards chiral attosecond pulses. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/12/123501
Kfir, Ofer, Grychtol, Patrik, Turgut, Emrah, Knut, Ronny, Zusin, Dmitriy, Fleischer, Avner, Bordo, Eliyahu, Fan, Tingting, Popmintchev, Dimitar, Popmintchev, Tenio, Kapteyn, Henry, Murnane, Margaret, and Cohen, Oren. Mon .
"Helicity-selective phase-matching and quasi-phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics: towards chiral attosecond pulses". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/12/123501.
@article{osti_1254065,
title = {Helicity-selective phase-matching and quasi-phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics: towards chiral attosecond pulses},
author = {Kfir, Ofer and Grychtol, Patrik and Turgut, Emrah and Knut, Ronny and Zusin, Dmitriy and Fleischer, Avner and Bordo, Eliyahu and Fan, Tingting and Popmintchev, Dimitar and Popmintchev, Tenio and Kapteyn, Henry and Murnane, Margaret and Cohen, Oren},
abstractNote = {Phase matching of circularly polarized high-order harmonics driven by counter-rotating bichromatic lasers was recently predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. In that work, phase matching was analyzed by assuming that the total energy, spin angular momentum and linear momentum of the photons participating in the process are conserved. Here we propose a new perspective on phase matching of circularly polarized high harmonics. We derive an extended phase matching condition by requiring a new propagation matching condition between the classical vectorial bi-chromatic laser pump and harmonics fields. This allows us to include the influence of the laser pulse envelopes on phase matching. We find that the helicity dependent phase matching facilitates generation of high harmonics beams with a high degree of chirality. Indeed, we present an experimentally measured chiral spectrum that can support a train of attosecond pulses with a high degree of circular polarization. Moreover, while the degree of circularity of the most intense pulse approaches unity, all other pulses exhibit reduced circularity. This feature suggests the possibility of using a train of attosecond pulses as an isolated attosecond probe for chiral-sensitive experiments.},
doi = {10.1088/0953-4075/49/12/123501},
journal = {Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics},
number = 12,
volume = 49,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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Figure 1: Experimental spectrogram of HHG pumped by a bi-chromatic field versus the relative phase between its two spectral components. (a) For a co-linear bi-chromatic pump field $\vec{E}$BC(t) ∞ $\hat{x}$ $\mathfrak{Re}$ [ exp (iωt + iφω)+exp (2iω + iφ2w)] the HHG spectrum oscillates with the relative phase, φ2ω-φω, since themore »
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