Applications of ultrafast wavefront rotation in highly nonlinear optics

F. Quéré; H. Vincenti; A. Borot; S. Monchocé; T. J. Hammond; Kyung Taec Kim; J. A. Wheeler; Chunmei Zhang; T. Ruchon; T. Auguste; J. F. Hergott; D. M. Villeneuve; P. B. Corkum; R. Lopez-Martens

doi:10.1088/0953-4075/47/12/124004

Applications of ultrafast wavefront rotation in highly nonlinear optics

F. Quéré, H. Vincenti, A. Borot, S. Monchocé, T. J. Hammond, Kyung Taec Kim, J. A. Wheeler, Chunmei Zhang, T. Ruchon, T. Auguste, J. F. Hergott, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, R. Lopez-Martens

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This paper provides an overview of ultrafast wavefront rotation of femtosecond laser pulses and its various applications in highly nonlinear optics, focusing on processes that lead to the generation of high-order harmonics and attosecond pulses. In this context, wavefront rotation can be exploited in different ways, to obtain new light sources for time-resolved studies, called 'attosecond lighthouses', to perform time-resolved measurements of nonlinear optical processes, using 'photonic streaking', or to track changes in the carrier-envelope relative phase of femtosecond laser pulses. The basic principles are explained qualitatively from different points of view, the experimental evidence obtained so far is summarized, and the perspectives opened by these effects are discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	124004
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume	47
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/12/124004
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

attosecond pulses
femtosecond lasers
high-harmonic generation
nonlinear optics
spatio-temporal couplings
ultrafast measurements

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Quéré, F., Vincenti, H., Borot, A., Monchocé, S., Hammond, T. J., Kim, K. T., Wheeler, J. A., Zhang, C., Ruchon, T., Auguste, T., Hergott, J. F., Villeneuve, D. M., Corkum, P. B., & Lopez-Martens, R. (2014). Applications of ultrafast wavefront rotation in highly nonlinear optics. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 47(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/12/124004

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