Sub-50 attosecond pulse generation from multicycle nonlinear chirped pulses
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We present a method of producing single attosecond pulses by high order harmonic generation with multi-cycle nonlinear chirped driver laser pulses. The symmetry of the laser field in several optical cycles near the pulse center is dramatically broken, and then the photons which cover a much broad spectrum burst almost only in one optical cycle. So an ultra-broad continuum spectrum appears in the high order harmonic spectrum, from which an isolated sub-50 attosecond pulse could be obtained. The results are almost independent of the length and chirp form of the driver laser pulse. c © 2009 Optical Society of America
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