Title :
Bright circularly polarized soft x-ray high harmonics for x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Author :
Tingting Fan ; Gychtol, Patrik ; Knut, Ronny ; Hernandez-Garcia, Carlos ; Hickstein, Daniel ; Gentry, Christian ; Hogle, Craig ; Zusin, Dmitriy ; Dorney, Kevin ; Shpyrko, Oleg ; Cohen, Oren ; Kfir, Ofer ; Plaja, Luis ; Becker, Andreas ; Jaron-Becker, Agni
Author_Institution :
JILA, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We present the first circularly-polarized soft X-ray harmonics to photon energies >160eV. Bright phase matched beams are used to characterize important materials with intrinsic perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for the first time using tabletop sources.
Keywords :
X-ray lasers; X-ray optics; high-speed optical techniques; magnetic anisotropy; magnetic circular dichroism; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism; bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics; bright phase matched beams; intrinsic perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; photon energies; tabletop sources; Harmonic analysis; Laser beams; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Photonics; Polarization; Ultraviolet sources; X-ray lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
