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Published on: February 4, 2017
Generation of two attosecond pulses with tunable delay using orthogonally-polarized chirped laser pulses
Jing Miao1, Zhinan Zeng, Peng Liu
1State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
We investigate theoretically the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by two orthogonally-polarized linearly chirped laser pulses. We show that such generating field has a specific temporal variation of the ellipticity which provides generation of two XUV attosecond pulses with tunable delay between them. This delay is controlled by the delay between the two generating pulses. Perspectives of application of this technique for the attosecond pump - attosecond probe experiments are discussed.

