Efficient generation of an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse

Details Efficient generation of an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse Efficient generation of an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse

2007-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/0709.2744v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043808

A new method for efficiently generating an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse is proposed. It is shown that the ultraviolet (UV) attosecond pulse can be utilized as a robust tool to control the dynamics of electron wave packets (EWPs). By adding a UV attosecond pulse to an infrared (IR) few-cycle pulse at a proper time, only one return of the EWP to the parent ion is selected to effectively contribute to the harmonics, then an isolated two-cycle 130-as pulse with a bandwidth of 45 eV is obtained. After complementing the chirp, an isolated single-cycle attosecond pulse with a duration less than 100 as seems achievable. In addition, the contribution of the quantum trajectories can be selected by adjusting the delay between the IR and UV fields. Using this method, the harmonic and attosecond pulse yields are efficiently enhanced in contrast to the scheme [G. Sansone {\it et al.}, Science {\bf314}, 443 (2006)] using a few-cycle IR pulse in combination with the polarization gating technique.

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