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- The generation of attosecond pulses typically relies on using infrared wavelengths to access soft X-rays, but longer wavelengths reduce harmonic conversion efficiency, complicating conventional measurements.
- In-situ measurement techniques have been developed to effectively analyze attosecond pulses, allowing for spatial and temporal characterization of pulses generated from 1.8 μm beams.
- The study confirms theoretical models, revealing that each beamlet acts as an isolated attosecond pulse and maintains a consistent wavefront curvature across a range of photon energies, with potential scalability to soft X-rays.
Article Abstract
The physics of attosecond pulse generation requires using infrared driving wavelength to reach the soft X-rays. However, with longer driving wavelength, the harmonic conversion efficiency drops significantly. It makes the conventional attosecond pulse measurement using streaking very difficult due to the low photoionization cross section in the soft X-rays region. In-situ measurement was developed for precisely this purpose. We use in-situ measurement to characterize, in both space and time, an attosecond pulse produced by ultrafast wavefront rotation of a 1.8 μm fundamental beam. We confirm what models suggest - that each beamlet is an isolated attosecond pulse in the time domain. We get almost constant flat wavefront curvature through the whole photon energy range. The measurement method is scalable to the soft X-ray spectral region.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882529 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26771 | DOI Listing |
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