TY - JOUR
T1 - Amplitude and phase control of attosecond light pulses
AU - López-Martens, Rodrigo
AU - Varjú, Katalin
AU - Johnsson, Per
AU - Mauritsson, Johan
AU - Mairesse, Yann
AU - Salières, Pascal
AU - Gaarde, Mette B.
AU - Schafer, Kenneth J.
AU - Persson, Anders
AU - Svanberg, Sune
AU - Wahlström, Claes Göran
AU - L'Huillier, Anne
PY - 2005/1/28
Y1 - 2005/1/28
N2 - We report the generation, compression, and delivery on target of ultrashort extreme-ultraviolet light pulses using external amplitude and phase control. Broadband harmonic radiation is first generated by focusing an infrared laser with a carefully chosen intensity into a gas cell containing argon atoms. The emitted light then goes through a hard aperture and a thin aluminum filter that selects a 30-eV bandwidth around a 30-eV photon energy and synchronizes all of the components, thereby enabling the formation of a train of almost Fourier-transform-limited single-cycle 170 attosecond pulses. Our experiment demonstrates a practical method for synthesizing and controlling attosecond waveforms.
AB - We report the generation, compression, and delivery on target of ultrashort extreme-ultraviolet light pulses using external amplitude and phase control. Broadband harmonic radiation is first generated by focusing an infrared laser with a carefully chosen intensity into a gas cell containing argon atoms. The emitted light then goes through a hard aperture and a thin aluminum filter that selects a 30-eV bandwidth around a 30-eV photon energy and synchronizes all of the components, thereby enabling the formation of a train of almost Fourier-transform-limited single-cycle 170 attosecond pulses. Our experiment demonstrates a practical method for synthesizing and controlling attosecond waveforms.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.033001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.033001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18144365149
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 94
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 3
M1 - 033001
ER -