This paper presents an experimental method to realize the best high-order harmonics generation (HHG) phase matching in the interaction of strong optical field with gas target. By studying the effects of the relative location between gas target source and the Gaussian-shaped driving femtosecond laser field focus on the harmonics yield, conclusions are obtained that the optimum position of gas target for phase matching is always behind the of the focal point of the driving field, with much lower HHG yield before the focus caused by serious harmonics phase mismatch. Meanwhile, with optimum harmonics phase matching, the high-order harmonics field that resulted has the similar Gaussian-shaped spatial distribution characteristics with the driving field, verifying experimentally the commonly used assumptions for attosecond laser pulse based on HHG. This optimization method is also suitable both for other driving field with different spatial distribution of light intensity and other type of target source. The results here have important guiding significance for high harmonic generation and high harmonic isolated attosecond pulse technology.
The generalized theory of double-mode electrostatic dispersing prism for time-domain compressing electron pulse is presented. The fundamental difference between the two modes of o mode and e mode lies in the dispersive dependence of electron’s time of flight on its initial kinetic energy at prism entrance: the electrons with higher initial axial energy definitely have longer time of flight for o mode, while not the case for e mode, which results from the electron pulse’s Ushaped motion in the prism. The dispersive dependence of time of flight constitutes the mechanism of electron pulse compression for each mode. An example is given to demonstrate the issue of parameter choosing for the prism and to verify its tunable performance of electron pulse compression.
In this paper, the anisotropic focusing technique is used to make a novel streak tube. The salient features are the introduction of both temporally focusing electrodes and spatially focusing electric quadrupole lens. The simulation showed that physical temporal dispersion of 0.38 ps and edge spatial resolution of 56 lp/mm can be achieved. The Nd:YLF 8ps pulse laser was used to calibrate the performance index of streak camera. The static and dynamic spatial resolutions are 35 lp/mm and 25 lp/mm respectively. The dynamic range more than 950:1 and time resolution 8ps can be reached. Furthermore, the magnifications in slit and scanning direction can be adjusted respectively, so it is very convenient to select amplification needed when it is coupled with KB microscope.
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