Isolated sub-fs XUV pulse generation in Mn plasma ablation.

Autor: Ganeev RA; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK. r.ganeev@imperial.ac.uk, Witting T, Hutchison C, Frank F, Tudorovskaya M, Lein M, Okell WA, Zaïr A, Marangos JP, Tisch JW
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics express [Opt Express] 2012 Nov 05; Vol. 20 (23), pp. 25239-48.
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025239
Abstrakt: We report studies of high-order harmonic generation in laser-produced manganese plasmas using sub-4-fs drive laser pulses. The measured spectra exhibit resonant enhancement of a small spectral region of about 2.5 eV width around the 31st harmonic (~50eV). The intensity contrast relative to the directly adjacent harmonics exceeds one order of magnitude. This finding is in sharp contrast to the results reported previously for multi-cycle laser pulses [Physical Review A 76, 023831 (2007)]. Theoretical modelling suggests that the enhanced harmonic emission forms an isolated sub-femtosecond pulse.
Databáze: MEDLINE