Cavity-Enhanced High Harmonic Generation for Attosecond Dynamics at Surfaces

Abstract

Supported by the AFOSR, we have worked on the development of high repetition-rate sources of vacuum ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation for photoemission experiments. This effort has had three main thrusts: (1) The refinement of Cavity-Enhanced High Harmonic Generation (CE-HHG) to be a usable light source for 100 ts-resolution photoemission experiments. (2) The investigation of incorporating gating schemes into CE-HHG to produce attosecond pulses. (3) The development of a high-average power mid-lR frequency comb for driving harmonics in solids. Effort (2) led us to the conclusion that CE-HHG was not the best way to achieve high rep-rate attosecond pulses and Efforts (1) and (3) have led to further ongoing work including pursuing single-pass solid-state HHG for high repetition rate isolated attosecond pulses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2020
Accession Number
AD1112806

Entities

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  • Thomas Allison

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Continents
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Frequency Combs
  • Geographic Regions
  • Light Sources
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • North America
  • Radiation
  • Repetition Rate
  • Scientific Research
  • Universities

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  • Physics

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  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research