Journal Article

PUBDB-2023-00951

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Parametric Waveform Synthesis: a scalable approach to generate sub-cycle optical transients

Mainz, R. E. (Corresponding author)CFEL*Extern* ; Rossi, G. M.CFEL*Extern*DESY* ; Scheiba, F.CFEL*Extern* ; Silva-Toledo, M. A. ; Yang, Y.CFEL*Extern*DESY* ; Cirmi, G.CFEL*DESY* ; Kärtner, F.CFEL*XFEL.EU*DESY*

2023
Optica Washington, DC

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1364/OE.485543  doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2023-00951

Abstract: The availability of electromagnetic pulses with controllable field waveform and extremely short duration, even below a single optical cycle, is imperative to fully harness strong-field processes and to gain insight into ultrafast light-driven mechanisms occurring in the attosecond time-domain. The recently demonstrated parametric waveform synthesis (PWS) introduces an energy-, power- and spectrum-scalable method to generate non-sinusoidal sub-cycle optical waveforms by coherently combining different phase-stable pulses attained via optical parametric amplifiers. Significant technological developments have been made to overcome the stability issues related to PWS and to obtain an effective and reliable waveform control system. Here we present the main ingredients enabling PWS technology. The design choices concerning the optical, mechanical and electronic setups are justified by analytical/numerical modeling and benchmarked by experimental observations. In its present incarnation, PWS technology enables the generation of field-controllable mJ-level few-femtosecond pulses spanning the visible to infrared range.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Ultrafast Lasers & X-rays Division (FS-CFEL-2)
2. Uni Hamburg / Experimentalphysik (UNI/EXP)

Research Program(s):

1. 631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control (POF4-631) (POF4-631)
2. DFG project 390715994 - EXC 2056: CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (390715994) (390715994)
3. DFG project 255652344 - SPP 1840: Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields (QUTIF) (255652344) (255652344)
4. AXSIS - Frontiers in Attosecond X-ray Science: Imaging and Spectroscopy (609920) (609920)

Experiment(s):

1. Experiments at CFEL
2. AXSIS: Frontiers in Attosecond X-ray Science, Imaging and Spectroscopy

Appears in the scientific report 2023

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