Gebhardt M, Heuermann T, Wang Z, Lenski M, Gaida C, Klas R, Kirsche A, Haedrich S, Rothhardt J, Limpert J (2020)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2020
Publisher: SPIE
Book Volume: 11260
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Event location: San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN: 9781510632837
DOI: 10.1117/12.2546151
Intense, ultrafast laser sources with an emission wavelength beyond the well-established near-IR are important tools for exploiting the wavelength scaling laws of strong-field, light-matter interactions. In particular, such laser systems enable high photon energy cut-off HHG up to, and even beyond, the water window thus enabling a plethora of subsequent experiments. Ultrafast thulium-doped fiber laser systems (providing a broad amplification bandwidth in the 2 μm wavelength region) represent a promising, average-power scalable laser concept in this regard. These lasers already deliver ∼100 fs pulses with multi-GW peak power at hundreds of kHz repetition rate. In this work, we show that combining ultrafast thulium-doped fiber CPA systems with hollow-core fiber based nonlinear pulse compression is a promising approach to realize high photon energy cut-off HHG drivers. Herein, we show that thulium-doped, fiber-laser-driven HHG in argon can access the highly interesting spectral region around 90 eV. Additionally, we show the first water window high-order harmonic generation experiment driven by a high repetition rate, thulium-doped fiber laser system. In this proof of principle demonstration, a photon energy cut-off of approximately 400 eV has been achieved, together with a photon flux <105 ph/s/eV at 300 eV. These results emphasize the great potential of exploiting the HHG wavelength scaling laws with 2 μm fiber laser technology. Improvements of the HHG efficiency, the overall HHG yield and further laser performance enhancements will be the subject of our future work.
APA:
Gebhardt, M., Heuermann, T., Wang, Z., Lenski, M., Gaida, C., Klas, R.,... Limpert, J. (2020). Soft x-ray high order harmonic generation driven by high repetition rate ultrafast thulium-doped fiber lasers. In Liang Dong (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. San Francisco, CA, USA: SPIE.
MLA:
Gebhardt, Martin, et al. "Soft x-ray high order harmonic generation driven by high repetition rate ultrafast thulium-doped fiber lasers." Proceedings of the Fiber Lasers XVII: Technology and Systems 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA Ed. Liang Dong, SPIE, 2020.
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