Ultrafast Science, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 9858739(2022)

Attosecond Optical and Ramsey-Type Interferometry by Postgeneration Splitting of Harmonic Pulse

Takuya Matsubara1,2, Yasuo Nabekawa1、*, Kenichi L. Ishikawa3,4,5, Kaoru Yamanouchi2, and Katsumi Midorikawa1
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  • 1Attosecond Science Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • 2Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 3Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
  • 4Photon Science Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
  • 5Research Institute for Photon Science and Laser Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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    Time domain Ramsey-type interferometry is useful for investigating spectroscopic information of quantum states in atoms and molecules. The energy range of the quantum states to be observed with this scheme has now reached more than 20 eV by resolving the interference fringes with a period of a few hundred attoseconds. This attosecond Ramsey-type interferometry requires the irradiation of a coherent pair of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light pulses, while all the methods used to deliver the coherent XUV pulse pair until now have relied on the division of the source of an XUV pulse in two before the generation. In this paper, we report on a novel technique to perform attosecond Ramsey-type interferometry by splitting an XUV high-order harmonic (HH) pulse of a sub-20 fs laser pulse after its generation. By virtue of the postgeneration splitting of the HH pulse, we demonstrated that the optical interference emerging at the complete temporal overlap of the HH pulse pair seamlessly continued to the Ramsey-type electronic interference in a helium atom. This technique is applicable for studying the femtosecond dephasing dynamics of electronic wavepackets and exploring the ultrafast evolution of a cationic system entangled with an ionized electron with sub-20 fs resolution.

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    Takuya Matsubara, Yasuo Nabekawa, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa. Attosecond Optical and Ramsey-Type Interferometry by Postgeneration Splitting of Harmonic Pulse[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2022, 2(1): 9858739

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: May. 2, 2022

    Accepted: Jun. 1, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2023

    The Author Email: Nabekawa Yasuo (nabekawa@riken.jp)

    DOI:10.34133/2022/9858739

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