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Relativistic Surface High Harmonic Generation. Christian Rödel , Silvio Fuchs, Martin Heyer, Oliver Jäckel, Gerhard G. Paulus FSU Jena, Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Helmholtz Institut Jena
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Relativistic Surface High Harmonic Generation Christian Rödel, Silvio Fuchs, Martin Heyer, Oliver Jäckel, Gerhard G. Paulus FSU Jena, Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Helmholtz Institut Jena Michael Behmke, Toma Toncian, Dirk Hemmers, Mirela Cercez, Monika Toncian, Georg Pretzler, Oswald Willi HHU Düsseldorf, Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik Daniel an der Brügge, Alexander Pukhov HHU Düsseldorf, Institut für Theoretische Physik A route to intense attosecond pulses ?
Attosecond science - Introduction Hentschel et al.: Attosecond metrology, Nature 2007 shortest attosecond pulses: 80 as E. Goulielmakis et al. Science, 320, 1614 (2008)
High harmonic generation in gases • 3-step model: (a) ionization, (b,c) motion of the free electron in the laser field, (d) recollision Corkum, Krausz: Attosecond science, Nature 2007
High Harmonic Spectra Agostini, DiMauro: The physics of attosecond light pulses, Reports on Progress in Physics • HHG spectrum in Neon, 50 fs, 1014 W/cm²
But… … laser pulses were getting stronger Small-scale 10-100 TW laser systems, Ti:Sapphire 800nm, 10 Hz JETI laser @ IOQ: 27 fs, 800mJ ARCTURUS laser @ ILPP: 27 fs, 2.5 J 30% of laser energy in a 7µm2 focus I=1020 W/cm2
What happens at an ideal surface at Relativistic intensity ? Corkum, Krausz: Attosecond science, Nature 2007
Relativistic surface High harmonic generation • PIC simulation with LPIC • JETI laser parameters: a0=4.5, t=80fs, 45° p-pol incidence lambda/20 scale length • oscillating plasma vacuum boundary
Relativistic surface High harmonic generation intensity harmonic number
Where does the modulation come from? space / wavelength
Where does the modulation come from? space / wavelength
… Unequal temporal spacing of the attosecond pulse train ? sdf superposition of attosecond pulses emitted at times tk with assumed identical shape spectrum is given by the absolute square of the Fourier transform plasma surface motion can be approximated by a simple parabola, which corresponds to a linear chirp with emission times
… Unequal temporal spacing of the attosecond pulse train… … describes the spectral modulations indirect evidence of attosecond time structure of relativistic surface harmonics !!! And just as a outlook …
… according to the same Pic simulations ... … they are very short (100as)