Amplitude and phase control of attosecond light pulses

Rodrigo López-Martens; Katalin Varjú; Per Johnsson; Johan Mauritsson; Yann Mairesse; Pascal Salières; Mette B. Gaarde; Kenneth J. Schafer; Anders Persson; Sune Svanberg; Claes Göran Wahlström; Anne L'Huillier

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.033001

Amplitude and phase control of attosecond light pulses

Rodrigo López-Martens
, Katalin Varjú
, Per Johnsson
, Johan Mauritsson
, Yann Mairesse
, Pascal Salières
, Mette B. Gaarde
, Kenneth J. Schafer
, Anders Persson
, Sune Svanberg
, Claes Göran Wahlström
, Anne L'Huillier

Lund Institute of Technology
University of Szeged
Louisiana State University
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	033001
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.033001
Publication status	Published - 28 Jan 2005

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