Generation of high photon flux coherent soft x-ray radiation with few-cycle pulses

作者: Stefan Demmler , Jan Rothhardt , Steffen Hädrich , Manuel Krebs , Arvid Hage

DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.005051

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摘要: We present a tabletop source of coherent soft x-ray radiation with high-photon flux. Two-cycle pulses delivered by fiber-laser-pumped optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier operating at 180 kHz repetition rate are upconverted via high harmonic generation in neon to photon energies beyond 200 eV. A maximum flux 1.3·108  photons/s is achieved within 1% bandwidth 125 eV energy. This corresponds conversion efficiency ∼10−9, which can be reached due gas jet simultaneously providing target density and phase matching. Further scaling potential toward higher as well discussed.

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