Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation
The use of counterpropagating laser pulses to suppress high harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated experimentally for pulses polarized parallel or perpendicular to the driving laser pulse. It is shown for the first time that perpendicularly polarized pulses can suppress HHG. The intensity of the...
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Optical Society of American (OSA)
2007
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| author | Landreman, M O'Keeffe, K Robinson, T Zepf, M Dromey, B Hooker, S |
| author_facet | Landreman, M O'Keeffe, K Robinson, T Zepf, M Dromey, B Hooker, S |
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| description | The use of counterpropagating laser pulses to suppress high harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated experimentally for pulses polarized parallel or perpendicular to the driving laser pulse. It is shown for the first time that perpendicularly polarized pulses can suppress HHG. The intensity of the counterpropagating pulse required for harmonic suppression is found to be much larger for perpendicular polarization than for parallel polarization, in good agreement with simple models of the harmonic suppression. These results have applications to quasi-phase-matching of HHG with trains of counterpropagating pulses. © 2007 Optical Society of America. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7b51f078-e8bb-49e2-9d7c-4407354a85ad2022-03-26T20:49:49ZComparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:7b51f078-e8bb-49e2-9d7c-4407354a85adEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordOptical Society of American (OSA)2007Landreman, MO'Keeffe, KRobinson, TZepf, MDromey, BHooker, SThe use of counterpropagating laser pulses to suppress high harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated experimentally for pulses polarized parallel or perpendicular to the driving laser pulse. It is shown for the first time that perpendicularly polarized pulses can suppress HHG. The intensity of the counterpropagating pulse required for harmonic suppression is found to be much larger for perpendicular polarization than for parallel polarization, in good agreement with simple models of the harmonic suppression. These results have applications to quasi-phase-matching of HHG with trains of counterpropagating pulses. © 2007 Optical Society of America. |
| spellingShingle | Landreman, M O'Keeffe, K Robinson, T Zepf, M Dromey, B Hooker, S Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title | Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title_full | Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title_fullStr | Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title_short | Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
| title_sort | comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation |
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