Temporal confinement and enhancement of high-order harmonic emission with a synthesized laser field

Hui Xiong, Ruxin Li, Zhinan Zeng, Yinghui Zheng, Yan Peng, Xuan Yang, Xiaowei Chen, Heping Zeng, Zhizhan Xu

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Abstract

We demonstrated that a synthesized laser field consisting of an intense long (45 fs, multi-optical-cycle) laser pulse and a weak short (7 fs, few-optical-cycle) laser pulse can control the electron dynamics and high-order harmonic generation in argon, and generate extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum towards the production of a single strong attosecond pulse. The long pulse offers a large amplitude field, and the short pulse creates a temporally narrow enhancement of the laser field and a gate for the highest energy harmonic emission. This scheme paves the way to generate intense isolated attosecond pulses with strong multi-optical-cycle laser pulses.

Original languageEnglish
Article number051802
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume75
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 May 2007

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