Single circularly polarized attosecond pulse generation by intense few cycle elliptically polarized laser pulses and...

We present a method for producing a single circularly polarized attosecond pulse by an intense few cycle elliptically polarized laser pulse combined with a terahertz field from numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the molecular ion H2(+). It is found that in the presence of a 62.5 THz (λ=4800  nm) field at an intensity of ∼10(14)  W/cm2, a single circularly polarized 114 as pulse can be generated by an elliptical polarized laser pulse at a wavelength of 400 nm with an ellipticity of ϵ=0.59. The efficiency of circular polarization attosecond pulse generation is interpreted based on a classical model of single electron recollision with the parent ion.