Journal Article

FZJ-2013-01374

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Isolated Attosecond Pulses from Laser-Driven Synchrotron Radiation

Mikhailova, J. M. (Corresponding author) ; Fedorov, M. V. ; Karpowicz, N. ; Gibbon, P.FZJ* ; Platonenko, V. T. ; Zheltikov, A. M. ; Krausz, F.

2012
APS College Park, Md.

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/5034  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.245005

Abstract: A quantitative theory of attosecond pulse generation in relativistically driven overdense plasma slabs is presented based on an explicit analysis of synchrotron-type electron trajectories. The subcycle, fieldcontrolled release, and subsequent nanometer-scale acceleration of relativistic electron bunches under the combined action of the laser and ionic potentials give rise to coherent radiation with a high-frequency cutoff, intensity, and radiation pattern explained in terms of the basic laws of synchrotron radiation. The emerging radiation is confined to time intervals much shorter than the half-cycle of the driver field. This intuitive approach will be instrumental in analyzing and optimizing few-cycle-laser-driven relativistic sources of intense isolated extreme ultraviolet and x-ray pulses.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)

Research Program(s):

1. 411 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (POF2-411) (POF2-411)

Appears in the scientific report 2012

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