Generation of an intense single isolated attosecond pulse by use of two-colour waveform control

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Zeng, Bin
Yu, Yongli
Chu, Wei
Yao, Jinping
Fu, Yuxi
Xiong, Hui
Xu, Han
Cheng, Ya
Xu, Zhizhan
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2009
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We theoretically demonstrate the generation of an intense single attosecond pulse by superposing a weak sub-harmonic pulse upon a sine-waveform few-cycle driving pulse. By use of a sine-waveform few-cycle pulse instead of its traditionally used cosine waveform counterpart, we show that efficient tunnel ionization for generating electrons which can revisit their parent ion with high kinetic energy can occur only once in the few-cycle laser field, leading to an increase of efficiency by nearly two orders of magnitude in single attosecond pulse generation as compared with the use of a cosine-waveform field.

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Journal of Physics B

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42

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14

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Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

Atomic and Molecular Physics

Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics

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Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

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