X-Ray Rainbows – Attosecond Spectroscopies
X-ray Rainbows for Attosecond Spectroscopies of Atomic, Molecular Systems and Nanomaterials
1. Quantum Design Concept
The high harmonic generation process driven by mid-infrared lasers can be used to generate keV energy photons, implementing a >5000 order nonlinear process, while still maintaining the full phase matching that is necessary for good conversion efficiency. This concept represents the most extreme, fully coherent upconversion for electromagnetic waves in the 50 year history of nonlinear optics. Interestingly, the limits of this ultrahigh harmonic geenration are still not understood – neither theoretically or experimentally. It may be possible to generate coherent hard X-rays using a relatively small scale apparatus.
PHASE MATCHED MID-IR DRIVEN HARMONICS:
– Broadband X-ray supercontinuum >keV photon energy
– Automatically isolated attosecond pulse + large chirp
– Balance neutral & plasma indices
Method for phase-matched generation of coherent soft and hard X-rays using IR lasers
Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Alon Bahabad, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Patent: US 8,462,824. Published: JUN 2013. Provisional Patent Application: US 61171783 MAR 2008.
Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers
T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, D. Popmintchev, P. Arpin, S. Brown, S. Alisauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, O. D. Mucke, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, B. Shim, S. E. Schrauth, A. Gaeta, C. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Plaja, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, Science 336, 1287-1291 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218497
Optics and Photonics News Highlight: Ultrafast Kev X-Rays from Tabletop Femtosecond Lasers
Optics and Photonics News Video Highlight: Optics in 2012: Best of the Best
National Science Foundation Press Release: All the Colors of a High-Energy Rainbow, in a Tightly Focused Beam
Nature News: Tabletop X-rays light up
Chemical & Engineering News: First Tabletop X-ray Laser
Los Angeles Times: Researchers produce first tabletop X-ray laser
BBC News: X-Ray lasers from tabletop device
Science News: Tenio Popmintchev fits X-ray laser on a tabletop
Scientific American: Physicists Invent First Tabletop X-Ray Source
Nature: Optics: Leading lights
The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation
T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, P. Arpin, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, Nat. Photonics 4, 822-832 (2010).http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.256
Phase matching of high harmonic generation in the soft and hard X-ray regions of the spectrum
T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, A. Bahabad, M. Gerrity, P. Sidorenko, O. Cohen, I. P. Christov, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, 10516-10521 (2009).http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903748106
Extended phase matching of high harmonics driven by mid-infrared light
T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, O. Cohen, M. E. Grisham, J. J. Rocca, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, Optics Letters 33, 2128-2130 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.33.002128
Near- and Extended-Edge X-Ray-Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Coherent High-Order Harmonic Supercontinua
D. Popmintchev, B. R. Galloway, M. C. Chen, F. Dollar, C. A. Mancuso, A. Hankla, L. Miaja-Avila, G. O’Neil, J. M. Shaw, G. Y. Fan, S. Alisauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, O. D. Mucke, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, H. C. Kapteyn, T. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, Physical Review Letters 120, (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.093002
American Physical Society Highlight: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy on a Tabletop
Chemical & Engineering News Highlight: Shrinking X-ray absorption spectroscopy down to the benchtop