Generation and measurement of isolated attosecond pulses with enhanced flux using a two colour synthesized laser field
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Journal Article
Abstract
We have generated isolated attosecond pulses and performed attosecond streaking measurements using a two-colour synthesized laser field consisting of a strong near-infrared few-cycle pulse and a weaker multi-cycle pulse centred at 400 nm. An actively stabilized interferometer was used to coherently combine the two pulses. Using attosecond streaking we characterised the electric fields of the two pulses and accurately retrieved the spectrum of the multi-cycle pulse. We demonstrated a two-fold increase in the flux of isolated attosecond pulses produced and show that their duration was minimally affected by the presence of the weaker field due to spectral filtering by a multilayer mirror.
Date Issued
2020-08-03
Date Acceptance
2020-07-06
Citation
Optics Express, 2020, 28 (16), pp.23329-23337
ISSN
1094-4087
Publisher
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Start Page
23329
End Page
23337
Journal / Book Title
Optics Express
Volume
28
Issue
16
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/N018680/1
Subjects
0205 Optical Physics
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
Optics
Publication Status
Published