Carrier envelope phase dependence of high harmonic generation from long duration multi-cycle multi-timescale pump pulses

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Abstract

High harmonic generation (HHG) can strongly depend on the carrier envelope phase (CEP) of its driving pulse if that pulse has a short duration of only a few optical cycles (few-cycle pulse) [1,2]. This effect is often used to characterize the CEP of laser sources [3,4], and manifests in observed harmonic cutoff frequency oscillations w.r.t. the CEP, as well as intensity oscillations in between adjacent harmonic peaks from slightly longer pulses [5]. CEP effects in HHG are known to completely vanish when the driving pulse duration is increased beyond a certain threshold [1,6,7], which is also accompanied by the formation of symmetry-allowed discrete harmonics (as opposed to continuous emission) [8,9]. Both these phenomena result from a coherent interference between harmonic photons that are generated by successive pump laser cycles, which behave time-periodically if the pump pulse is long enough. Accordingly, CEP dependence has never been observed in HHG from pulses longer than ∼20fs with central wavelength of 800nm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019
ISBN (Electronic)9781728104690
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 23 Jun 201927 Jun 2019

Publication series

Name2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019

Conference

Conference2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period23/06/1927/06/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Spectroscopy
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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