Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 041901(2011)

Generation of isolated attosecond pulses with a specific waveform two-color laser field

Jinping Yao1,2, Yao Li1,2, and Ya Cheng1
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    We theoretically propose a new method for generating intense isolated attosecond pulses during high-order harmonic generation (HHG) process by accurately controlling electron motion with a two-color laser field, which consists of an 800-nm, 4-fs elliptically polarized laser field and a 1400-nm, ~43-fs linearly polarized laser field. With this method, the supercontinua with a spectral width above 200 eV are obtained, which can support a ~15-as isolated pulse after phase compensation. Classical and quantum analyses explain the controlling effects well. In particular, when the pulse duration of the 800-nm laser field increases to 20-fs, sub-100-as isolated pulses can be obtained even without any phase compensation.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Nov. 2, 2010

    Accepted: Nov. 26, 2010

    Published Online: Mar. 18, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.041901

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