Measurement of the duration of high harmonic pulses

Author

Constant, Eric ; Taranukhin, V. ; Stolow, Albert ; Corkum, P.B.

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

93

Abstract

Summary form only given. In the high harmonic generation process in an atomic gas with short laser pulses the plasma density and related phase matching effects are known to affect the spatial profile. They must also influence the temporal profile of this harmonic generation. Indeed it has been suggested to use these effects to squeeze the high harmonic pulse to a duration of 2 to 3 fs. However, because of the large bandwidth and short wavelength, there was no method to measure the duration of these pulses. The subject of this paper is to present such a method.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical harmonic generation; atomic gas; high harmonic generation; phase matching; plasma density; pulse duration measurement; short laser pulse; temporal profile; Atom lasers; Atomic beams; Atomic measurements; Bandwidth; Frequency conversion; Gas lasers; Optical pulse generation; Plasma density; Plasma measurements; Pulse measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864404