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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
Published on: February 4, 2017
Interplay between group-delay-dispersion-induced polarization gating and ionization to generate isolated attosecond
Carlo Altucci1, Raffaele Velotta, Valer Tosa
1CNISM-Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia, 26-Ed. 6-80126, Napoli, Italy. caltucci@unina.it
Optics Letters
|August 19, 2010
Abstract:
We implemented a new experimental scheme for the generation of single-shot extreme-UV continua that exploits a combination of transform-limited 15 fs, 800 nm pulses and chirped 35 fs, 800 nm pulses with orthogonal polarizations. Continua are interpreted as the formation of a single attosecond pulse and attributed to the interplay between polarization, ionization gating, and trajectory selection operated by suitable phase-matching conditions.

