低脉冲能量红外泵浦的宽带超连续光谱产生

以重复频率为250 MH2、脉冲宽度为140 fs的锁模掺镱光纤激光器作为泵浦源,用拉锥光子晶体光纤产生超连续光谱.优化光纤拉锥直径后,在泵浦光脉冲能量达到0.36 nJ时,产生的超连续光在—20 dB水平的光谱覆盖范围为470~1 620 nm;继续增加泵浦光脉冲能量,光谱范围在可见光区已无显著增大.超连续光谱产生的数值模拟结果与实验符合良好,且模拟中超连续光谱产生的部位为光纤靠近入射端的过渡段,与实验中观察到的现象吻合.以25 GHz高重复频率脉冲激光作为泵浦源,保持0.36 nJ脉冲能量,用优化后的光纤进行超连续光谱产生,得到光谱在—20 dB水平上覆盖可见光区的范围为450~700 nm,超过12 h的光谱演化测试表明了超连续光的长期稳定性.     

Generation of an isolated sub-100 attosecond pulse in the water-window spectral region

We propose a scheme to generate isolated attosecond pulses in the water-window spectral region. Based on the numerical solutions of the single active electron model, we investigate high-order harmonic generation in helium atoms driven by a multi-cycle two-colour optical field synthesized by an intense 2000 nm, 20 fs pulse and its frequency-doubled pulse. When the latter is slightly detuned and properly phase shifted with respect to the fundamental laser pulse, an ultra-broad extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum with a spectral width of 130~eV can be generated in the 270--400~eV spectral regions. A supercontinuum from 280--340~eV in the water window can be selected to yield an isolated 67 attosecond pulse without employing any phase compensation. This water window coherent x-ray pulse with less than 100 attosecond duration is a potential tool for studying the ultrafast electronic dynamics of biological samples in water.     

双色光场驱动产生单个阿秒脉冲过程中的宏观效应

通过数值模拟三维传播方程研究了双色场产生高次谐波过程中宏观效应的影响,重点分析了阿秒脉冲的时域形状.在6 fs/800 nm和21.3 fs/400 nm组成的双色场中,通过调节双色场间的相对延时,双色场各焦点相对于气体盒子入口的间距和双色场束腰半径和气体压强等参数,可以在平台区得到超宽带连续谱.对该连续谱中420—540 eV的谐波直接进行滤波后可以得到时间同步性很好的单个阿秒脉冲.这种性质对实验上通过双色场方案产生超短的阿秒脉冲非常有利. 关键词： 传播效应 阿秒脉冲 时间同步性