Optimization of temporal gate by two-color chirped lasers for the generation of isolated attosecond pulse in soft X rays

Liwei He; Guanglu Yuan; Kan Wang; Weijie Hua; Chao Yu; Cheng Jin

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.001407

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 12, 1407(2019)

Optimization of temporal gate by two-color chirped lasers for the generation of isolated attosecond pulse in soft X rays

Liwei He¹, Guanglu Yuan¹, Kan Wang¹, Weijie Hua¹, Chao Yu^1,3, and Cheng Jin^1,2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Applied Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

²State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

³e-mail: chaoyu@njust.edu.cn

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Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Jul. 17, 2019

Accepted: Sep. 22, 2019

Published Online: Nov. 14, 2019

The Author Email: Cheng Jin (cjin@njust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.001407

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