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Plasma and Beam Physics

2020

Anthony F. Starace Publications

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Attosecond-Pulse Metrology Based On High-Order Harmonic Generation, T. S. Sarantseva, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Romanov, N. V. Vvedenskii, Anthony F. Starace Jan 2020

Attosecond-Pulse Metrology Based On High-Order Harmonic Generation, T. S. Sarantseva, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Romanov, N. V. Vvedenskii, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

An all-optical method to retrieve the temporal intensity profile of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulse is proposed based on XUV-assisted high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by an intense infrared (IR) pulse. For a harmonic located on the XUV-induced high-energy plateau (beyond the IR HHG plateau), the measured harmonic yield as a function of the time delay between the XUV and IR pulses is shown to accurately map the temporal intensity profile of the XUV pulse. Single-color and two-color orthogonal, linearly polarized IR pulses are used to demonstrate the method.


Minimizing The Duration Of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Dian Peng, Anthony F. Starace, Hua-Chieh Shao, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap Jan 2020

Minimizing The Duration Of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Dian Peng, Anthony F. Starace, Hua-Chieh Shao, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap

Anthony F. Starace Publications

We investigate theoretically how the duration of an isolated attosecond pulse (IAP) can be minimized by carefully selecting frequencies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra produced by ultrashort driving laser pulses. Based on numerical calculations of HHG by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a single H atom, we provide three strategies for generating shorter IAPs. First, when the high-frequency region of an HHG plateau is selected one should use frequencies below the cutoff. Second, for a wide HHG plateau the low-frequency region can produce shorter IAPs than the high-frequency region. Third, we propose a method of producing IAPs with …


Origin Of The Multiphoton-Regime Harmonic-Generation Plateau Structure, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, Anthony F. Starace Jan 2020

Origin Of The Multiphoton-Regime Harmonic-Generation Plateau Structure, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

A physical interpretation is provided for the formation of the multiphoton-regime plateau feature in the spectra of nonlinear and correlated process of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of two-active-electron atoms interacting with an intense linearly polarized laser field [Phys. Rev. A 88, 053412 (2013) for beryllium]. While in the strong-field tunneling regime the plateau feature is well known to be due to rescattering effects of the freed electron, its counterpart in the multiphoton regime is due to atomic resonance effects involving both singly excited states and doubly excited states. Here, we propose a strategy to uncover which kind of these states …