Attosecond Rabi Oscillations in High Harmonic Generation Resonantly Driven by Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields

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Hauptverfasser: Heras, Alba de las, Hernández-García, Carlos, Serrano, Javier, Prodanov, Aleksandar, Popmintchev, Dimitar, Popmintchev, Tenio, Plaja, Luis
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author Heras, Alba de las
Hernández-García, Carlos
Serrano, Javier
Prodanov, Aleksandar
Popmintchev, Dimitar
Popmintchev, Tenio
Plaja, Luis
author_facet Heras, Alba de las
Hernández-García, Carlos
Serrano, Javier
Prodanov, Aleksandar
Popmintchev, Dimitar
Popmintchev, Tenio
Plaja, Luis
contents High-order harmonic generation driven by intense extreme ultraviolet (EUV) fields merges quantum optics and attosecond science, giving rise to an appealing route for the generation of coherent EUV and soft X-ray light for high-resolution imaging and spectroscopies. We theoretically investigate ultrafast resonant dynamics during the interaction of He atoms with strong extreme ultraviolet pulses. At high driving intensities, we identify record fast attosecond Rabi oscillations imprinting observable signatures in the high harmonic spectrum. At field strengths suppressing the Coulomb potential barrier for all the bounded states, we demonstrate the survival of the attosecond two-level dynamics for several Rabi cycles. Consequently, this intense EUV laser-atom interaction reveals a new strong-field scenario where the resonant coupling of two-level bound-bound transitions prevails, contrasting with the dominance of bound-continuum transitions in the conventional strong-field infrared regimes. These findings set an interesting perspective for extreme attosecond nonlinear optics with intense short-wavelength fields.
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spellingShingle Attosecond Rabi Oscillations in High Harmonic Generation Resonantly Driven by Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields
Heras, Alba de las
Hernández-García, Carlos
Serrano, Javier
Prodanov, Aleksandar
Popmintchev, Dimitar
Popmintchev, Tenio
Plaja, Luis
Atomic Physics
Optics
Quantum Physics
High-order harmonic generation driven by intense extreme ultraviolet (EUV) fields merges quantum optics and attosecond science, giving rise to an appealing route for the generation of coherent EUV and soft X-ray light for high-resolution imaging and spectroscopies. We theoretically investigate ultrafast resonant dynamics during the interaction of He atoms with strong extreme ultraviolet pulses. At high driving intensities, we identify record fast attosecond Rabi oscillations imprinting observable signatures in the high harmonic spectrum. At field strengths suppressing the Coulomb potential barrier for all the bounded states, we demonstrate the survival of the attosecond two-level dynamics for several Rabi cycles. Consequently, this intense EUV laser-atom interaction reveals a new strong-field scenario where the resonant coupling of two-level bound-bound transitions prevails, contrasting with the dominance of bound-continuum transitions in the conventional strong-field infrared regimes. These findings set an interesting perspective for extreme attosecond nonlinear optics with intense short-wavelength fields.
title Attosecond Rabi Oscillations in High Harmonic Generation Resonantly Driven by Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields
topic Atomic Physics
Optics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04053