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Published on: February 4, 2017
Time-frequency characterization of femtosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses
J Norin1, J Mauritsson, A Johansson
1Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Abstract:
We present energy-resolved cross-correlation measurements of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulse, generated as the fifth harmonic (15.5 eV) of an intense 80 fs laser pulse centered at 400 nm. Spectrally resolving the cross-correlation signal allows us to characterize the time-dependent frequency of the XUV pulse. We find that the fifth harmonic has a small negative chirp in excess of that predicted by perturbation theory. In addition, by manipulating the chirp of the driving laser we can induce and measure a positive or a negative chirp on the XUV pulse.

