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Toward the Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Water Window

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The coherent attosecond pulse in the water-window spectral region could be a powerful tool for studying the ultrafast electronic dynamics of biological samples in water. We propose a scheme to generate isolated attosecond pulses in water-window region, by exploring the high-order harmonic generation in helium atoms driven by a multicycle two-color optical field synthesized with an intense 2,000 nm, 20 fs pulse and its detuned frequency doubled pulse. The calculations show that isolated 67 as pulses in the water-window can be produced in this way. We also describe how to generate such a driving laser pulse with stabilized carrier-envelop phase from a two-stage optical parametric amplifier. With a pump source at 800 nm, the output pulse is tunable from 1.2 to 2. 4 μm, and the output average power is 1.2 W for 1. 5 – 1. 7 μm region. Due to the differential frequency process, the output infrared pulse is self-phase-stabilized.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the technical help offered by Pengfei Wei, Yansui Huang, Chuang Li, and Yinghui Zheng. This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806000), National Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 10734080, 60578049, 10523003), the State Key Laboratory Program of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology under Grant No. 07JC14055.

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    Ruxin Li, Zhinan Zeng, Pu Zou, Yuxing Leng, Chunmei Zhang & Zhizhan Xu

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Li, R., Zeng, Z., Zou, P., Leng, Y., Zhang, C., Xu, Z. (2010). Toward the Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Water Window. In: Yamanouchi, K., Gerber, G., Bandrauk, A. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15054-8_6

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