Strong field amplification of XUV: phase matching aspects

J. Seres; E. Seres; B. Ecker; B. Landgraf; D. Hochhaus; D. Zimmer; V. Bagnoud; B. Aurand; B. Zielbauer; T. Kuehl; C. Spielmann

doi:10.1117/12.892888

13 September 2011 Strong field amplification of XUV: phase matching aspects

J. Seres, E. Seres, B. Ecker, B. Landgraf, D. Hochhaus, D. Zimmer, V. Bagnoud, B. Aurand, B. Zielbauer, T. Kuehl, C. Spielmann

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Proceedings Volume 8140, X-ray Lasers and Coherent X-ray Sources: Development and Applications IX; 814009 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892888
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The dependence of the yield of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) on several important experimental parameters has been successfully modeled in the last 20 years by taking into account the single atom response and propagation effects. We extended this description by adding a stimulated emission process and named it x-ray parametric amplification (XPA). Beyond the super-quadratic increase of the XUV signal, which can be explained only in a limited pressure range by HHG theory, other observed characteristics like exponential growth, gain narrowing, strong blue-shift, beam divergence, etc. and their dependence on laser intensity and gas pressure can be explained accurately only by the new XPA model. We experimentally demonstrated XPA in Argon in the spectral range of 40-50 eV in excellent agreement with the theory. XPA holds the promise to realize a new class of bright x-ray sources for spectroscopy.

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J. Seres, E. Seres, B. Ecker, B. Landgraf, D. Hochhaus, D. Zimmer, V. Bagnoud, B. Aurand, B. Zielbauer, T. Kuehl, and C. Spielmann "Strong field amplification of XUV: phase matching aspects", Proc. SPIE 8140, X-ray Lasers and Coherent X-ray Sources: Development and Applications IX, 814009 (13 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892888

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