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Controlling polarization of attosecond pulses with plasmonic-enhanced bichromatic counter-rotating circularly polarized fields

Ansari, Irfana N; Hofmann, Cornelia; Medisauskas, Lukas; Lewenstein, Maciej; Ciappina, Marcelo F; Dixit, Gopal; (2021) Controlling polarization of attosecond pulses with plasmonic-enhanced bichromatic counter-rotating circularly polarized fields. Physical Review A , 103 (1) , Article 013104. 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013104. Green open access

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Abstract

The use of bichromatic counter-rotating laser field is known to generate high-order harmonics with non-zero ellipticity. By combining such laser field with a plasmonic-enhanced spatially inhomogeneous field, we propose a way to influence the sub-cycle dynamics of the high-harmonic generation process. Using the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation combined with classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the change of the direction and the strength of the plasmonic field selectively enhances or suppresses certain recombining electron trajectories. This in turn modifies the ellipticity of the emitted attosecond pulses.

Type: Article
Title: Controlling polarization of attosecond pulses with plasmonic-enhanced bichromatic counter-rotating circularly polarized fields
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013104
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013104
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: HIGH-HARMONIC-GENERATION, TUNNEL IONIZATION, ATOMS, SPIN
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146851
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