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Lukas Medišauskas1, Jack Wragg2, Hugo van der Hart2
1Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ London, United Kingdom and Max-Born-Institute, Max-Born Strasse 2A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
We theoretically demonstrate the possibility to generate both trains and isolated attosecond pulses with high ellipticity in a practical experimental setup. The scheme uses circularly polarized, counterrotating two-color driving pulses carried at the fundamental and its second harmonic. Using a model Ne atom, we numerically show that highly elliptic attosecond pulses are generated already at the single-atom level. Isolated pulses are produced by using few-cycle drivers with controlled time delay between them.
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