High-order harmonics measured by the photon statistics of the infrared driving-field exiting the atomic medium

N. Tsatrafyllis; I. K. Kominis; I. A. Gonoskov; P. Tzallas

doi:10.1038/ncomms15170

Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

High-order harmonics measured by the photon statistics of the infrared driving-field exiting the atomic medium

N. Tsatrafyllis,
I. K. Kominis,
I. A. Gonoskov,
P. Tzallas

Affiliations

N. Tsatrafyllis: Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser
I. K. Kominis: Department of Physics, University of Crete
I. A. Gonoskov: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
P. Tzallas: Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15170
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Describing the properties of high harmonic photons is challenging due to the complexity of XUV spectroscopy. Here the authors use the photon statistics of the transmitted infrared laser photons to characterize the XUV photon flux without the need of XUV spectrometers.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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