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Published on: October 11, 2016
Coherent control in the extreme ultraviolet and attosecond regime by synchrotron radiation
Y Hikosaka1, T Kaneyasu2,3, M Fujimoto3,4
1Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan. hikosaka@las.u-toyama.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Quantum manipulation of populations and pathways in matter by light pulses, so-called coherent control, is currently one of the hottest research areas in optical physics and photochemistry. The forefront of coherent control research is moving rapidly into the regime of extreme ultraviolet wavelength and attosecond temporal resolution. This advance has been enabled by the development of high harmonic generation light sources driven by intense femtosecond laser pulses and by the advent of seeded free electron laser sources. Synchrotron radiation, which is usually illustrated as being of poor temporal coherence, hitherto has not been considered as a tool for coherent control. Here we show an approach based on synchrotron radiation to study coherent control in the extreme ultraviolet and attosecond regime. We demonstrate this capability by achieving wave-packet interferometry on Rydberg wave packets generated in helium atoms.
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