Ultrafast Science, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 0063(2024)

High Harmonic Generation Light Source with Polarization Selectivity and Sub-100-μm Beam Size for Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Haoyuan Zhong1, Xuanxi Cai1, Changhua Bao1, Fei Wang1, Tianyun Lin1, Yudong Chen2, Sainan Peng2, Lin Tang1, Chen Gu1, Zhensheng Tao2, Hongyun Zhang1, and Shuyun Zhou1,3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (MOE), and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China.
  • 3Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.
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    High-quality ultrafast light sources are critical for developing advanced time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TrARPES). While the application of high harmonic generation (HHG) light sources in TrARPES has increased substantially over the past decade, the optimization of the HHG probe beam size and selective control of the light polarization, which are important for TrARPES measurements, have been rarely explored. In this work, we report the implementation of high-quality HHG probe source with an optimum beam size down to 57 μm × 90 μm and selective light polarization control, together with mid-infrared (MIR) pumping source for TrARPES measurements using a 10-kHz amplifier laser. The selective polarization control of the HHG probe source allows to enhance bands with different orbital contributions or symmetries, as demonstrated by experimental data measured on a few representative transition metal dichalcogenide materials as well as topological insulator Bi2Se3. Furthermore, by combining the HHG probe source with MIR pumping at 2-μm wavelength, TrARPES on a bilayer graphene shows a time resolution of 140 fs, allowing to distinguish 2 different relaxation processes in graphene. Such high-quality HHG probe source together with the MIR pumping expands the capability of TrARPES in revealing the ultrafast dynamics and light-induced emerging phenomena in quantum materials.

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    Haoyuan Zhong, Xuanxi Cai, Changhua Bao, Fei Wang, Tianyun Lin, Yudong Chen, Sainan Peng, Lin Tang, Chen Gu, Zhensheng Tao, Hongyun Zhang, Shuyun Zhou. High Harmonic Generation Light Source with Polarization Selectivity and Sub-100-μm Beam Size for Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2024, 4(1): 0063

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Feb. 6, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 27, 2024

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

    The Author Email: Zhou Shuyun (syzhou@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.34133/ultrafastscience.0063

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