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Generation of the attosecond extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum by a polarization gating 

Authors: Bing Shan a;  Shambhu Ghimire a; Zenghu Chang a
Affiliation:   a J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
DOI: 10.1080/09500340410001729573
Publication Frequency: 21 issues per year
Published in: journal Journal of Modern Optics, Volume 52, Issue 2 & 3 January 2005 , pages 277 - 283
Number of References: 18
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)
Previously published as: Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics (0030-3909) until 1987
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Abstract

We report the first demonstration of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) supercontinuum generation in the plateau region of the high-order harmonic spectrum indicative of a single attosecond pulse. It was accomplished by combining the generation of sub-10 fs laser pulses with the polarization gating of high harmonic generation. When an 8 fs pulse centred at 750 nm was split and delayed with a quartz plate and then recombined with a quarter waveplate, a laser pulse was created whose polarization varied rapidly from circular to linear and back to circular. The near-linearly polarized portion of the resultant pulse was only 1.3 fs long, which was much shorter than the laser pulse duration. Since the high-order harmonic generation process is susceptible to the ellipticity of the driving field, the pulse with a time-dependent ellipticity behaved like a half-cycle linearly polarized pulse for generating XUV radiation. By exciting argon gas with the pulse, a supercontinuum that covered 25-45 nm was produced, which corresponds to an estimated single 200 as pulse.
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