Single attosecond pulses from high harmonics driven by self-compressed filaments
- 22 November 2006
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 31 (24) , 3662-3664
Abstract
We show that isolated subfemtosecond, extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses can be generated via harmonic generation in argon by few-cycle infrared pulses formed through filamentation-induced self-compression in neon. Our calculations show that the time structure of the XUV pulses depends sensitively on both the amplitude and the phase modulation that are induced in the driving pulse during the self-compression process.Keywords
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