Enhancing high-order harmonic generation by sculpting waveforms with chirp

Peng, Dian; Frolov, M. V.; Pi, Liang-Wen; Starace, Anthony F.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053414

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Enhancing high-order harmonic generation by sculpting waveforms with chirp

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Pi, Liang-Wen
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Peng, D., Frolov, M. V., Pi, L.-W., & Starace, A. F. (2018). Enhancing high-order harmonic generation by sculpting waveforms with chirp. Physical Review A, 97(5): 053414. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053414.

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Abstract

We present a theoretical analysis showing how chirp can be used to sculpt two-color driving laser field waveforms in order to enhance high-order harmonic generation (HHG) and/or extend HHG cutoff energies. Specifically, we consider driving laser field waveforms composed of two ultrashort pulses having different carrier frequencies in each of which a linear chirp is introduced. Two pairs of carrier frequencies of the component pulses are considered: (omega, 2 omega) and (omega, 3 omega). Our results show how changing the signs of the chirps in each of the two component pulses leads to drastic changes in the HHG spectra. Our theoretical analysis is based on numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation and on a semiclassical analytical approach that affords a clear physical interpretation of how our optimized waveforms lead to enhanced HHG spectra.