Tracking attosecond electronic coherences using phase-manipulated extreme ultraviolet pulses

Autor: Andreas Przystawik, Michele Di Fraia, Raimund Feifel, Tim Laarmann, Ulrich Bangert, Simone Spampinati, Enrico Allaria, Paolo Sigalotti, Paolo Cinquegrana, Roberto Borghes, Kevin C. Prince, Paolo Piseri, Giuseppe Penco, Finn O'Shea, Giuseppe Sansone, Marcel Binz, Richard J. Squibb, Miltcho B. Danailov, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Alexander Demidovich, Najmeh Mirian, Lukas Bruder, Giulio Cerullo, Oksana Plekan, Frank Stienkemeier, Andreas Wituschek, Ivaylo Nikolov, Marcel Drabbels, Luca Giannessi, Carlo Callegari, Carlo Spezzani, Rupert Michiels, Marcel Mudrich, Daniel Uhl, Stefano Stranges
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
Attosecond
Free Electron Laser radiation
General Physics and Astronomy
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Physics - Atomic Physics
lcsh:Science
Physics
Quantum Physics
Multidisciplinary
Atomic and molecular interactions with photons
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
3. Good health
ddc:500
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Electronic structure of atoms and molecules
0210 nano-technology
Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
Coherence (physics)
Physics - Optics
Science
Dephasing
Optical spectroscopy
FOS: Physical sciences
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology

Article
Optics
XUV pump-probe spectroscopy
Physics::Plasma Physics
0103 physical sciences
Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters
010306 general physics
Attosecond science
business.industry
Nonlinear optics
General Chemistry
Coherent control
Extreme ultraviolet
Temporal resolution
lcsh:Q
inner subshell electronic coherence
business
Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Ultrashort pulse
Optics (physics.optics)
Zdroj: Nature Communications 11(1), 883 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14721-2
Nature Communications
Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
Wituschek, A, Bruder, L, Allaria, E, Bangert, U, Binz, M, Borghes, R, Callegari, C, Cerullo, G, Cinquegrana, P, Giannessi, L, Danailov, M, Demidovich, A, Di Fraia, M, Drabbels, M, Feifel, R, Laarmann, T, Michiels, R, Mirian, N S, Mudrich, M, Nikolov, I, O’Shea, F H, Penco, G, Piseri, P, Plekan, O, Prince, K C, Przystawik, A, Ribič, P R, Sansone, G, Sigalotti, P, Spampinati, S, Spezzani, C, Squibb, R J, Stranges, S, Uhl, D & Stienkemeier, F 2020, ' Tracking attosecond electronic coherences using phase-manipulated extreme ultraviolet pulses ', Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 883 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14721-2
Popis: The recent development of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) coherent light sources bears great potential for a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of matter. Promising routes are advanced coherent control and nonlinear spectroscopy schemes in the XUV energy range, yielding unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. However, their implementation has been hampered by the experimental challenge of generating XUV pulse sequences with precisely controlled timing and phase properties. In particular, direct control and manipulation of the phase of individual pulses within an XUV pulse sequence opens exciting possibilities for coherent control and multidimensional spectroscopy, but has not been accomplished. Here, we overcome these constraints in a highly time-stabilized and phase-modulated XUV-pump, XUV-probe experiment, which directly probes the evolution and dephasing of an inner subshell electronic coherence. This approach, avoiding any XUV optics for direct pulse manipulation, opens up extensive applications of advanced nonlinear optics and spectroscopy at XUV wavelengths.
Light pulses with controllable parameters are desired for studying the fundamental properties of matter. Here the authors generate and use phase-manipulated and highly time-stable XUV pulse pairs to probe the coherent evolution and dephasing of XUV electronic coherences in helium and argon.
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