We generated single-cycle isolated attosecond pulses around È36 electron volts using phasestabilized 5-femtosecond driving pulses with a modulated polarization state. Using a complete temporal characterization technique, we demonstrated the compression of the generated pulses for as low as 130 attoseconds, corresponding to less than 1.2 optical cycles. Numerical simulations of the generation process show that the carrier-envelope phase of the attosecond pulses is stable. The availability of single-cycle isolated attosecond pulses opens the way to a new regime in ultrafast physics, in which the strong-field electron dynamics in atoms and molecules is driven by the electric field of the attosecond pulses rather than by their intensity profile.

Isolated single-cycle attosecond pulses / G., Sansone; E., Benedetti; F., Calegari; C., Vozzi; L., Avaldi; R., Flammini; L., Poletto; P., Villoresi; Altucci, Carlo; Velotta, Raffaele; S., Stagira; S., DE SILVESTRI; M., Nisoli. - In: SCIENCE. - ISSN 0036-8075. - STAMPA. - 314:(2006), pp. 443-446. [10.1126/science.1132838]

Isolated single-cycle attosecond pulses

ALTUCCI, CARLO;VELOTTA, RAFFAELE;
2006

Abstract

We generated single-cycle isolated attosecond pulses around È36 electron volts using phasestabilized 5-femtosecond driving pulses with a modulated polarization state. Using a complete temporal characterization technique, we demonstrated the compression of the generated pulses for as low as 130 attoseconds, corresponding to less than 1.2 optical cycles. Numerical simulations of the generation process show that the carrier-envelope phase of the attosecond pulses is stable. The availability of single-cycle isolated attosecond pulses opens the way to a new regime in ultrafast physics, in which the strong-field electron dynamics in atoms and molecules is driven by the electric field of the attosecond pulses rather than by their intensity profile.
2006
Isolated single-cycle attosecond pulses / G., Sansone; E., Benedetti; F., Calegari; C., Vozzi; L., Avaldi; R., Flammini; L., Poletto; P., Villoresi; Altucci, Carlo; Velotta, Raffaele; S., Stagira; S., DE SILVESTRI; M., Nisoli. - In: SCIENCE. - ISSN 0036-8075. - STAMPA. - 314:(2006), pp. 443-446. [10.1126/science.1132838]
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