Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2008-03-25
Phys. Rev. A77, 033806 (2008)
Physics
Atomic Physics
8 pages, 10 figures; with appendix not present in published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033806
We show how to optimize the process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) by gating the interaction using the field gradient of the driving pulse. Since maximized field gradients are efficiently generated by self-steepening processes, we first present a generalized theory of optical carrier-wave self-steepened (CSS) pulses. This goes beyond existing treatments, which only consider third-order nonlinearity, and has the advantage of describing pulses whose wave forms have a range of symmetry properties. Although a fertile field for theoretical work, CSS pulses are difficult to realize experimentally because of the deleterious effect of dispersion. We therefore consider synthesizing CSS-like profiles using a suitably phased sub-set of the harmonics present in a true CSS wave form. Using standard theoretical models of HHG, we show that the presence of gradient-maximized regions on the wave forms can raise the spectral cut-off and so yield shorter attosecond pulses. We study how the quality of the attosecond bursts created by spectral filtering depends on the number of harmonics included in the driving pulse.
Chipperfield Luke E.
Kinsler Paul
New G. H. C.
Radnor S. B. P.
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