Efficient excitation and control of atomic systems with unipolar half-cycle XUV attosecond pulses

authored by
R. M. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov, M. V. Arkhipov, I. Babushkin, A. Demircan, U. Morgner, N. N. Rosanov
Abstract

Generation of extremely short attosecond pulses is one of the key fields of modern optics [1-3]. Such pulses enable control over the electron wave packets dynamics at the smallest time scales [1, 4]. Recently, different methods of generation of strong half-cycle attosecond pulses in XUV but also in the optical range have been proposed [2, 3]. Such pulses contain a half-wave of single optical polarity followed by a weak and long decaying tail of opposite polarity. Such half-cycle pulses can be thus considered as 'quasi-unipolar' because of having nonzero electric pulse area SE = ∫ E(t)dt in their most intense part. To date, interaction of such quasi-unipolar pulses with matter for the pulse duration comparable to the timescale of electron movement in atom is poorly understood.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Quantum Optics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
External Organisation(s)
Saint Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO)
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy im Forschungsbund Berlin e.V. (MBI)
S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute
RAS - Ioffe Physico Technical Institute
Type
Conference contribution
No. of pages
1
Publication date
2019
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Spectroscopy, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Networks and Communications
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871835 (Access: Closed)