The simplest route to generating a train of attosecond pulses

Kazumichi Yoshii; John Kiran Anthony; Masayuki Katsuragawa

doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.14

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The simplest route to generating a train of attosecond pulses

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- The simplest route to generating a train of attosecond pulses
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 2, Issue 1-2, (2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
- Author bio：
  
  Professor M Katsuragawa, Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, 1–5–1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182–8585, Japan E-mail: katsura@pc.uec.ac.jp
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2013.14
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- Published：2013-06，
  
  Published Online：15 March 2013，
  
  Received：25 September 2012，
  
  Revised：21 November 2012，
  
  Accepted：29 November 2012
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Yoshii, K., Anthony, K. J. & Katsuragawa, M. The simplest route to generating a train of attosecond pulses. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e58 (2013).
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Yoshii, K., Anthony, K. J. & Katsuragawa, M. The simplest route to generating a train of attosecond pulses. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e58 (2013). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2013.14.

摘要

Abstract

We report on two novel routes to generating a train of attosecond pulses from a broad discrete spectrum in the near-infrared–visible–ultraviolet range. One extends an integer-temporal-Talbot (ITT) concept to include high-order spectral dispersions and generates a pulse train that completely satisfies the transform-limited condition. The other numerically explores the optimum conditions under which we can obtain an attosecond pulse train that approximately satisfies the transform-limited condition. The second method is more practical than the first. Either of these methods is extremely simple and robust; we need only to place a few thin dispersive materials in the optical path and to adjust their thicknesses without spatially dispersing the frequency components. We numerically demonstrate the generation of a train of attosecond pulses with a transform-limited pulse duration of 728 as and a repetition period of 8.03 fs in gaseous parahydrogen.

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Keywords

adiabatic excitation of Raman transitionattosecond pulse generationinteger-temporal-Talbot (ITT) methodmolecular modulation

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