XUV Spectral Compression by Four-Wave Mixing
arXiv:2002.11552 · doi:10.1038/s41566-020-00758-8
Abstract
Extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) sources including high-harmonic generation, free-electron lasers, soft x-ray lasers and laser-driven plasmas are widely used for applications ranging from femtochemistry and attosecond science to coherent diffractive imaging and EUV lithography. The bandwidth of the XUV light emitted by these sources reflects the XUV generation process used. While light from soft-x-ray lasers and XUV FELs typically has a relatively narrow bandwidth, plasma sources and HHG sources driven by few-cycle laser pulses emit broadband XUV pulses. Since these characteristic properties of a given XUV source impose limitations to applications, techniques enabling modification of the XUV bandwidth are highly desirable. Here we demonstrate a concept for efficient spectral compression of a broadband XUV pulse via four-wave mixing (FWM) in the presence of a broadband near-infrared (NIR) pulse in a krypton gas jet, exploiting a phase-matching scheme based on closely-spaced resonances. Our concept provides new possibilities for tailoring the spectral bandwidth of XUV beams.
arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures
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