Few-cycle attosecond pulses via periodic resonance interaction with hydrogenlike atoms. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We show that it is possible to produce nearly bandwidth-limited few-cycle attosecond pulses based on periodic resonance interaction of a quasi-monochromatic radiation with the bound states of hydrogenlike atoms. A periodic resonance is provided by a far-off-resonant laser field with intensity much below the atomic ionization threshold via periodic tunnel ionization from the excited states and adiabatic Stark splitting of the excited energy levels. Without external synchronization of the spectral components, it is possible to produce 135 as pulses at 13.5 nm in Li-plasma controlled by radiation of a mode-locked Nd:YAG laser, as well as 1.25 fs pulses at 122 nm in atomic hydrogen controlled by radiation of a CO laser.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Polovinkin, V. A., Radeonychev, Y. V., & Kocharovskaya, O.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • Polovinkin, VA||Radeonychev, YV||Kocharovskaya, Olga

publication date

  • January 2011