Enhancement of high harmonics from plasmas using two-color pump and chirp variation of 1 kHz Ti:sapphire laser pulses.

Autor: Ganeev RA; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK. rashid_ganeev@mail.ru, Hutchison C, Zaïr A, Witting T, Frank F, Okell WA, Tisch JW, Marangos JP
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics express [Opt Express] 2012 Jan 02; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 90-100.
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000090
Abstrakt: We have investigated resonance effects in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) within laser-produced plasmas. We demonstrate a significantly improved harmonic yield by using two-color pump-induced enhancement and a 1 kHz pulse repetition rate. Together with an increased HHG output, the even harmonics in the cutoff region were enhanced with respect to odd harmonics. We report the observation of a resonance-induced growth in intensity of 20th harmonic in silver plasma (2×), 26th harmonic in vanadium plasma (4×), and 28th harmonic in chromium plasma (5×).
Databáze: MEDLINE