Simultaneous control of harmonic yield and energy cutoff of high-harmonic generation using seeded plasmonic-enhanced fields
arXiv:1810.06340 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.063406
Abstract
We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) driven by seeded plasmonic-enhanced fields. On one hand, plasmonic-enhanced fields have shown a great potential to extend the HHG cutoff, an instrumental pre-requisite for the generation of attosecond pulses. On another hand, the use of XUV seeds appears to have a considerable potential to improve the HHG conversion efficiency, which is typically modest when a unique fundamental laser pulse is employed. By mixing these two sources, we show it is possible to, simultaneously, boost the HHG cutoff and to increase the harmonic photon flux. The combination of these features potentially enables to generate intense and spectrally broad attosecond pulse trains.
arXiv comment19 pages, 8 figures
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