Attosecond Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime

Author

Sansone, G. ; Benedetti, E. ; Calegari, F. ; Vozzi, C. ; Stagira, S. ; De Silvestri, S. ; Nisoli, M. ; Avaldi, L. ; Flammini, R. ; Poletto, L. ; Villoresi, P. ; Altucci, C. ; Velotta, R.

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. for Ultrafast & Ultraintense Opt. Sci. CNR-INFM, Milan

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This work reports on the generation, compression and temporal characterization of isolated attosecond pulses down to the single cycle regime. The frequency resolved optical gating for complete reconstruction of attosecond burst (FROG-CRAB) technique has been used to fully characterize the temporal envelope and phase of the attosecond pulse. We have generated XUV broadband continua by high-order harmonic generation (HHG), focusing phase-stabilized few-optical-cycle driving pulses with a time dependent ellipticity in an argon cell with a static pressure.

Keywords

optical focusing; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; FROG-CRAB technique; XUV broadband continua; argon cell; attosecond pulse compression; few-cycle regime; frequency resolved optical gating for complete reconstruction of attosecond burst; high-order harmonic generation; isolated attosecond pulse generation; phase-stabilized few-optical-cycle driving pulse focusing; single cycle regime; static pressure; temporal envelope; temporal phase; time dependent ellipticity; Aluminum; Chirp; Delay; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386371

Filename

4386371