Spatiotemporal isolation of attosecond soft X-ray pulses in the water window

Attosecond pulses at photon energies that cover the principal absorption edges of the building blocks of materials are a prerequisite for time-resolved probing of the triggering events leading to electronic dynamics such as exciton formation and annihilation. We demonstrate experimentally the isolat...

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Autores: Silva, Francisco, Teichmann, Stephan M., Cousin, Seth L., Hemmer, Michael, Biegert, Jens
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/27117
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/27117
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:X-ray lasers
X-ray pulses
Raigs X
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Electromagnetisme::Raigs X
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Sumario:Attosecond pulses at photon energies that cover the principal absorption edges of the building blocks of materials are a prerequisite for time-resolved probing of the triggering events leading to electronic dynamics such as exciton formation and annihilation. We demonstrate experimentally the isolation of individual attosecond pulses at the carbon K-shell edge (284 eV) in the soft X-ray water window with pulse duration below 400 as and with a bandwidth supporting a 30-as pulse duration. Our approach is based on spatiotemporal isolation of long-wavelength-driven harmonics and validates a straightforward and scalable approach for robust and reproducible attosecond pulse isolation