Ultrafast polarization-tunable monochromatic extreme ultraviolet source at high-repetition-rate

A Comby, D Rajak, D Descamps, S Petit… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A Comby, D Rajak, D Descamps, S Petit, V Blanchet, Y Mairesse, J Gaudin, S Beaulieu
Journal of Optics, 2022iopscience.iop.org
We report on the development of a high-order harmonic generation (HHG)-based ultrafast
high-repetition-rate (250 kHz) monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (21.6 eV) source with
polarization tunability, specifically designed for multi-modal dichroism in time-and angle-
resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Driving HHG using an annular beam allows us to
spatially separate the high-power 515 nm driving laser from the XUV beamlet while
preserving the linear polarization axis angle tunability. This enables controlling the …
Abstract
We report on the development of a high-order harmonic generation (HHG)-based ultrafast high-repetition-rate (250 kHz) monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (21.6 eV) source with polarization tunability, specifically designed for multi-modal dichroism in time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Driving HHG using an annular beam allows us to spatially separate the high-power 515 nm driving laser from the XUV beamlet while preserving the linear polarization axis angle tunability. This enables controlling the polarization state of the XUV radiation with a fixed all-reflective phase-shifter. This scheme leads to a source brightness of photons s− 1 at 21.6 eV (up to photons s− 1 on target) with ellipticities as high as 90%.
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