Necklace-structured high-harmonic generation for low-divergence, soft x-ray harmonic combs with tunable line spacing

Rego, Laura; Brooks, Nathan J.; Nguyen, Quynh L. D.; Román, Julio San; Binnie, Iona; Plaja, Luis; Kapteyn, Henry C.; Murnane, Margaret M.; Hernández-García, Carlos

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj7380

Title: Necklace-structured high-harmonic generation for low-divergence, soft x-ray harmonic combs with tunable line spacing

Journal Article · 04 February 2022 · Science Advances

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj7380 · OSTI ID:1907652

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Univ. of Salamanca (Spain); JILA University of Colorado
Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Salamanca (Spain)

The extreme nonlinear optical process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) makes it possible to map the properties of a laser beam onto a radiating electron wave function and, in turn, onto the emitted x-ray light. Bright HHG beams typically emerge from a longitudinal phased distribution of atomic-scale quantum antennae. Here, we form a transverse necklace-shaped phased array of linearly polarized HHG emitters, where orbital angular momentum conservation allows us to tune the line spacing and divergence properties of extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray high-harmonic combs. The on-axis HHG emission has extremely low divergence, well below that obtained when using Gaussian driving beams, which further decreases with harmonic order. This work provides a new degree of freedom for the design of harmonic combs—particularly in the soft x-ray regime, where very limited options are available. Such harmonic beams can enable more sensitive probes of the fastest correlated charge and spin dynamics in molecules, nanoparticles, and materials.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-99ER14982

OSTI ID:: 1907652

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Journal Name: Science Advances Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 8; ISSN 2375-2548

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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