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Title: Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields

Abstract

High harmonics driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly-polarized laser fields are a unique source of bright, circularly-polarized, extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray beams, where the individual harmonics themselves are completely circularly polarized. Here, we demonstrate the ability to preferentially select either the right or left circularly polarized harmonics simply by adjusting the relative intensity ratio of the bichromatic circularly polarized driving laser field. In the frequency domain, this significantly enhances the harmonic orders that rotate in the same direction as the higher intensity driving laser. In the time domain, this helicity-dependent enhancement corresponds to control over the polarization of the resulting attosecond waveforms. Here, this helicity control enables the generation of circularly-polarized high harmonics with a user-defined polarization of the underlying attosecond bursts. In the future, this technique should allow for the production of bright highly elliptical harmonic supercontinua as well as the generation of isolated elliptically polarized attosecond pulses.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Univ. of Salamanca (Spain)
  3. Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1686156
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1374457
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-99ER14982
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 119; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Atomic & molecular processes in external fields; High-harmonic generationStrong-field approximation

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Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hernández-García, Carlos, Hickstein, Daniel D., Mancuso, Christopher A., Brooks, Nathan, Fan, Tingting, Fan, Guangyu, Zusin, Dmitriy, Gentry, Christian, Grychtol, Patrik, Kapteyn, Henry C., and Murnane, Margaret M. Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.119.063201.
Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hernández-García, Carlos, Hickstein, Daniel D., Mancuso, Christopher A., Brooks, Nathan, Fan, Tingting, Fan, Guangyu, Zusin, Dmitriy, Gentry, Christian, Grychtol, Patrik, Kapteyn, Henry C., & Murnane, Margaret M. Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.063201
Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hernández-García, Carlos, Hickstein, Daniel D., Mancuso, Christopher A., Brooks, Nathan, Fan, Tingting, Fan, Guangyu, Zusin, Dmitriy, Gentry, Christian, Grychtol, Patrik, Kapteyn, Henry C., and Murnane, Margaret M. Tue . "Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.063201. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1686156.
@article{osti_1686156,
title = {Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields},
author = {Dorney, Kevin M. and Ellis, Jennifer L. and Hernández-García, Carlos and Hickstein, Daniel D. and Mancuso, Christopher A. and Brooks, Nathan and Fan, Tingting and Fan, Guangyu and Zusin, Dmitriy and Gentry, Christian and Grychtol, Patrik and Kapteyn, Henry C. and Murnane, Margaret M.},
abstractNote = {High harmonics driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly-polarized laser fields are a unique source of bright, circularly-polarized, extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray beams, where the individual harmonics themselves are completely circularly polarized. Here, we demonstrate the ability to preferentially select either the right or left circularly polarized harmonics simply by adjusting the relative intensity ratio of the bichromatic circularly polarized driving laser field. In the frequency domain, this significantly enhances the harmonic orders that rotate in the same direction as the higher intensity driving laser. In the time domain, this helicity-dependent enhancement corresponds to control over the polarization of the resulting attosecond waveforms. Here, this helicity control enables the generation of circularly-polarized high harmonics with a user-defined polarization of the underlying attosecond bursts. In the future, this technique should allow for the production of bright highly elliptical harmonic supercontinua as well as the generation of isolated elliptically polarized attosecond pulses.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.119.063201},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 119,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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