Exploring new avenues in high repetition rate table-top coherent extreme ultraviolet sources

Steffen Hädrich; Manuel Krebs; Armin Hoffmann; Arno Klenke; Jan Rothhardt; Jens Limpert; Andreas Tünnermann

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.93

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Exploring new avenues in high repetition rate table-top coherent extreme ultraviolet sources

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- Exploring new avenues in high repetition rate table-top coherent extreme ultraviolet sources
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 3, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 07745 Jena, Germany
  2.Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
  3.Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Straße 7, 07745 Jena, Germany
- Author bio：
  
  Steffen Hädrich, Email: steffen.haedrich@uni-jena.de
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.93
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- Published：2015-09，
  
  Published Online：13 April 2015，
  
  Received：28 October 2014，
  
  Revised：07 April 2015，
  
  Accepted：08 April 2015
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Hädrich, S. et al. Exploring new avenues in high repetition rate table-top coherent extreme ultraviolet sources. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e320 (2015).
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Hädrich, S. et al. Exploring new avenues in high repetition rate table-top coherent extreme ultraviolet sources. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e320 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.93.

摘要

Abstract

The process of high harmonic generation (HHG) enables the development of table-top sources of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light. Although these are now matured sources

they still mostly rely on bulk laser technology that limits the attainable repetition rate to the low kilohertz regime. Moreover

many of the emerging applications of such light sources (e.g.

photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy

coherent diffractive imaging

or frequency metrology in the XUV spectral region) require an increase in the repetition rate. Ideally

these sources are operated with a multi-MHz repetition rate and deliver a high photon flux simultaneously. So far

this regime has been solely addressed using passive enhancement cavities together with low energy and high repetition rate lasers. Here

a novel route with significantly reduced complexity (omitting the requirement of an external actively stabilized resonator) is demonstrated that achieves the previously mentioned demanding parameters. A krypton-filled Kagome photonic crystal fiber is used for efficient nonlinear compression of 9 µJ

250 fs pulses leading to ~7 µJ

31 fs pulses at 10.7 MHz repetition rate. The compressed pulses are

used for HHG in a gas jet. Particular attention is devoted to achieving phase-matched (transiently) generation yielding

photons s

−1

(

50 µW) at 27.7 eV. This new spatially coherent XUV source improved the photon flux by four orders of magnitude for direct multi-MHZ experiments

thus demonstrating the considerable potential of this source.

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Keywords

coherent extreme ultraviolet sourceshigh average powerhigh harmonic generationnonlinear compressionultrafast laser

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