Revealing the giant resonance in Xe via HHG with sub-two cycle 1.8 µm laser pulses

Author

Schmidt, B.E. ; Shiner, A.D. ; Trallero-Herrero, C. ; Wörner, H.J. ; Patchkovskii, S. ; Kieffer, J.-C. ; Corkum, P.B. ; Villeneuve, D.M. ; Légaré, F.

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci., Varennes, QC, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Recent advances in optical parametric amplification (OPA) based few-cycle pulse generation at 1.8 μm wavelength led to the discovery of multi-electron correlation effects in high harmonic generation (HHG), in particular the giant resonance in Xe. The novel scheme for sub-two cycle pulse generation rests upon nonlinear propagation of OPA pulses in a hollow-core fiber and subsequent compression solely by linear propagation through Fused Silica which exhibits anomalous dispersion.

Keywords

electron correlations; giant resonances; light propagation; optical fibre dispersion; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; silicon compounds; xenon; SiO₂; Xe; anomalous dispersion; few-cycle pulse generation; fused silica; giant resonance; high harmonic generation; hollow-core fiber; linear propagation; multielectron correlation effects; nonlinear propagation; optical parametric amplification; sub-two cycle pulse generation; wavelength 1.8 mum; Atomic measurements; Correlation; Extraterrestrial measurements; Ionization; Measurement by laser beam; Nonlinear optics; Xenon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943032

Filename

5943032