Spatiotemporal isolation of attosecond soft X-ray pulses in the water window
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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.
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High-harmonic sources extended to soft x-ray domain are in principle capable of achieving attosecond durations and provide pulses perfectly synchronized with driving laser pulse.
“High-harmonic sources, which are being extended to the soft x-ray domain [129, 202, 203], are in principle clearly capable of achieving attosecond durations and provide pulses that are perfectly synchronized with the driving laser pulse.”
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- Authors
- Silva, F., Teichmann, S. M., Cousin, S. L., Hemmer, M., & Biegert, J.
- Affiliations
- Institute of Photonic Sciences (ES)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Biegert, Jens
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- Keywords
- attosecond pulses, exciton formation
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