title: Attosecond pulses with sophisticated spatio-spectral waveforms: spatio-spectral Airy and auto-focusing beams.
abstract: We propose a scheme for producing attosecond pulses with sophisticated spatio-spectral waveforms. The profile of a seed attosecond pulse is modified and its central frequency is up-converted through interaction with an infrared pump pulse. The transverse profile of the infrared beam and a spatiotemporal shift between the seed and infrared pulses are used for manipulating the spatio-spectral waveform of the generated pulse beam. We present several examples of sophisticated isolated attosecond pulse beam generation, including spatio-spectral Airy beam that exhibits prismatic self-bending effect and a beam undergoing auto-focusing to a sub-micron spot without the need of a focusing lens or nonlinearity.
authors: Solid State Institute and Physics Department, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. ofertx@technion.ac.il
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