Collinear generation of ultrashort UV and XUV pulses

Elisabeth Bothschafter, Agustin Eduardo Schiffrin, Vladislav S Yakovlev, Abdallah Mohammed Azzeer, Ferenc Krausz, Ralph Ernstorfer, Reinhard Kienberger

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Abstract

We demonstrate the collinear generation of few-femtosecond ultraviolet and attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses via a combination of third-harmonic and high harmonic generation in noble gases. The ultrashort coherent light bursts are produced by focusing a sub-1.5-cycle nearinfrared/visible laser pulse in two subsequent quasi-static noble gas targets. This approach provides an inherently synchronized pair of UV and XUV pulses, where the UV radiation has a photon energy of 5 eV and a pulse energy of up to 1 ?J and the XUV radiation contains up to 3.5 . 106 XUV photons per shot with a photon energy exceeding 100 eV. This source represents a novel tool for future UV pump/XUV probe experiments with unprecedented time-resolution
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9173 - 9180
Number of pages8
JournalOptics Express
Volume18
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

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