Optical Rotation Quasi-Phase-Matching for Circularly Polarized High Harmonic Generation

Autor: Liu, Lewis Z., O'Keeffe, Kevin, Hooker, Simon M.
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 12, pp. 2415-2417 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.002415
Popis: The first scheme for quasi-phase-matching high harmonic generation of circularly polarized radiation is proposed: optical rotation quasi-phase-matching (ORQPM). In ORQPM propagation of the driving radiation in a system exhibiting circular birefringence causes its plane of polarization to rotate; by appropriately matching the period of rotation to the coherence length it is possible to avoid destructive interference of the generated radiation. It is shown that ORQPM is approximately 5 times more efficient than conventional QPM, and half as efficient as true phase-matching.
Databáze: arXiv