Enhanced high-harmonic emission with 25-fs laser pulses

Author

Rundquist, A. ; Christov, I. ; Chang, Z. ; Zhou, J. ; Peatross, J. ; Murnane, Margaret M. ; Kapteyn, H.C.

Author_Institution

Center for Ultrafast Opt. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

113

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present experimental and theoretical results on ultrashort soft-X-ray harmonic generation in gases, using an amplified Ti:sapphire excitation laser with a 25-fs pulsewidth. The bandwidth of the excitation pulses is 32 nm, centered at a wavelength of 805 nm, and the laser system can provide up to 70 mJ of energy per pulse at a 10 Hz repetition rate. The laser beam is focused by a curved mirror onto a gas target to generate the high harmonics, and the spectra are taken with use of a grazing-incidence soft-X-ray spectrometer.

Keywords

X-ray spectra; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser mirrors; laser transitions; optical focusing; optical harmonic generation; ultraviolet spectra; 25 fs; 70 mJ; 805 nm; Hz repetition rate; amplified Ti:sapphire excitation laser; curved mirror; enhanced high-harmonic emission; excitation pulse bandwidth; fs laser pulses; fs pulsewidth; gas target; gases; grazing-incidence soft-X-ray spectrometer; high harmonic generation; laser beam focusing; laser system; soft X-ray spectra; ultrashort soft-X-ray harmonic generation; Bandwidth; Frequency conversion; Gas lasers; Gases; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;

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

864435