Control of laser high-harmonic generation with counterpropagating light

被引：66

作者：

Voronov, SL ^{[1
]}

Kohl, I ^{[1
]}

Madsen, JB ^{[1
]}

Simmons, J ^{[1
]}

Terry, N ^{[1
]}

Titensor, J ^{[1
]}

Wang, Q ^{[1
]}

Peatross, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brigham Young Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Provo, UT 84602 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2001年 / 87卷 / 13期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.133902

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Relatively weak counterpropagating light is shown to disrupt the emission of laser high-harmonic generation. Harmonic orders ranging from the teens to the low thirties produced by a 30-femtosecond pulse in a narrow argon jet are "shut down" with a contrast as high as 2 orders of magnitude by a chirped 1-picosecond counterpropagating laser pulse (60 times less intense). Alternatively, under poor phase-matching conditions, the counterpropagating light boosts harmonic production by similar contrast through quasiphase matching where out-of-phase emission is suppressed.

引用

页码：133902/1 / 133902/4

页数：4

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