How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases

R Weissenbilder, S Carlström, L Rego, C Guo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases leads to short-pulse extreme ultraviolet
(XUV) radiation that is useful in a number of applications, such as attosecond science and …

Non-linear processes in the extreme ultraviolet

I Orfanos, I Makos, I Liontos, E Skantzakis… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent developments in extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray radiation sources have pushed
pulse energies and durations to unprecedented levels that opened up the era of non-linear …

Compact intense extreme-ultraviolet source

B Major, O Ghafur, K Kovács, K Varjú, V Tosa… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
High-intensity laser pulses covering the ultraviolet to terahertz spectral regions are
nowadays routinely generated in a large number of laboratories. In contrast, intense extreme …

[HTML][HTML] High-flux 100 kHz attosecond pulse source driven by a high-average power annular laser beam

P Ye, LG Oldal, T Csizmadia, Z Filus, T Grósz… - Ultrafast …, 2022 - spj.science.org
High-repetition rate attosecond pulse sources are indispensable tools for time-resolved
studies of electron dynamics, such as coincidence spectroscopy and experiments with high …

Phase-matched high-order harmonic generation in pre-ionized noble gases

O Finke, J Vábek, M Nevrkla, N Bobrova, O Hort… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
One of the main difficulties of efficiently generating high-order harmonics in long neutral-gas
targets is to reach the phase-matching conditions. The issue is that the medium cannot be …

High-order harmonic generation in a strongly overdriven regime

B Major, K Kovács, E Svirplys, M Anus, O Ghafur… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) normally requires a careful adjustment of the driving
laser intensity (typically 10 14–10 15 W/cm 2) and gas medium parameters to obtain a …

Extended model for optimizing high-order harmonic generation in absorbing gases

B Major, K Varjú - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on an extended version of the one-dimensional model proposed by Constant et al
(1999 Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 1668) to study phase matching of high-order harmonic generation …

100-mJ class, sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable dual-chirped optical parametric amplification

L Xu, B Xue, N Ishii, J Itatani, K Midorikawa… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Based on dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) and type-I BiB_3O_6
(BiBO) crystals, the generation of> 100 mJ, 10.4 fs, 10? Hz, carrier-envelope phase (CEP) …

Propagation-assisted generation of intense few-femtosecond high-harmonic pulses

B Major, M Kretschmar, O Ghafur… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The ongoing development of intense high-harmonic generation (HHG) sources has recently
enabled highly non-linear ionization of atoms by the absorption of at least 10 extreme …

Optimal generation and isolation of attosecond pulses in an overdriven ionized medium

X Tang, K Wang, B Li, Y Chen, CD Lin, C Jin - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We identify optimal conditions for the generation and isolation of attosecond pulses in an
overdriven ionized medium. In a high-pressure and highly ionized gas, the spatiotemporal …