title: Dramatic cutoff extension and broadband supercontinuum generation in multi-cycle two color pulses.
abstract: We propose a method to markedly increase the electron-recollision kinetic energy, using the combination of a 0.8 μm/13 fs driving pulse with a much weaker multi-cycle mid-infrared pulse at 10.4 μm. The results show that the synthesized field effectively lengthens the accelerated distance of electron wave packet and the harmonic cutoff is significantly extended to IP+26UP, which is covered with the water-window spectral region. In addition, only one single quantum path contributes to harmonics, and those higher than IP+15UP become continuous. This supercontinuum can support the generation of an isolated sub-100 as pulse with tunable central wavelength and also the pulse with the duration below one atomic unit of time (24 as). Moreover, our scheme can further extend to more longer driving pulses, which provides a dramatic approach for cutoff extension and broadband supercontinuum generation with multi-cycle pump pulses.
authors.affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Jianghua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Weiyi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Qingbin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kunlong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Peixiang
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers