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Phase-matching control of high-order harmonics with circular Airy-Gaussian beams
Abstract:
We investigate the phase-matching of the high harmonics (HHG) driven by the circular Airy-Gaussian beams (CAiGB), which abruptly auto-focus and subsequently propagate without diffraction. The results show that the harmonics corresponding to both short and long quantum paths can be well phase-matched after the focusing point of the CAiGB. Therefore, the effective interaction length of HHG for CAiGB is much longer than that for the conventional Gaussian beams with the same size of the waist. Our numerical simulations reveal that the harmonics continuously gain up to 1 cm of the propagation distance. This work provides a route to enhance the conversion efficiency of HHG by the coherent control of abrupt auto-focusing beams.
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