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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science pp 49–63Cite as

Frequency Tunable Attosecond Apparatus

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The development of attosecond technology is one of the most significant recent achievements in the field of ultrafast optics; it opens up new frontiers in atomic and molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. A unique attosecond pump-probe apparatus using a compact Mach-Zehnder interferometer is developed. The interferometer system is compact (∼290 cm2) and completely located outside of the vacuum chamber. The location reduces the mechanical vibration from vacuum components such as turbopumps and roughing pumps. The stability of the interferometer is ∼50 as RMS over 24 hours, stabilized with an active feedback loop. The pump and probe fields can be easily altered to incorporate multiple colors. In the interferometer, double optical gating optics are arranged to generate isolated attosecond pulses with a supercontinuum spectrum. The frequencies of the attosecond pulses can be selected to be in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) region (25–55 eV, 140 as) or the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region (15–24 eV, ∼400 as) by metal filters. Furthermore, the near infrared probe field (1.65 eV) can be upconverted to the ultraviolet (3.1 eV). The frequency tunability in the XUV and VUV is critical for selecting excited states of target atoms and molecules.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. M.J.B. and A.R.B. acknowledge support from National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. S.R.L. acknowledges additional support from the National Science Foundation, Chemistry Division, a National Science Foundation, Extreme Ultraviolet Science Engineering Research Center, and a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship. The authors thank the LBNL Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO) for custom made XUV/VUV optics.

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    Hiroki Mashiko, M. Justine Bell, Annelise R. Beck, Daniel M. Neumark & Stephen R. Leone

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    M. Justine Bell, Annelise R. Beck, Daniel M. Neumark & Stephen R. Leone

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    Stephen R. Leone

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Mashiko, H., Bell, M.J., Beck, A.R., Neumark, D.M., Leone, S.R. (2014). Frequency Tunable Attosecond Apparatus. In: Yamanouchi, K., Paulus, G., Mathur, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science. Springer Series in Chemical Physics(), vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00521-8_4

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