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Generation of the isolated highly elliptically polarized attosecond pulse using the polarization gating technique: TDDFT approach

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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 31, Issue 11, Pages 18430-18443

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.488842

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This paper theoretically investigates the generation of isolated elliptically polarized attosecond pulses from the interaction of Cl2 molecule and a polarization-gating laser pulse. Two methods are proposed, one using a single-color laser and controlling the molecule orientation angle, and the other using a two-color laser and adjusting the intensity ratio. The achieved attosecond pulses have different ellipticities and pulse durations.
This paper theoretically investigates the generation of isolated elliptically polarized attosecond pulses with a tunable ellipticity from the interaction of Cl2 molecule and a polarizationgating laser pulse. A three-dimensional calculation based on the time-dependent density functional theory is done. Two different methods are proposed for generating elliptically polarized single attosecond pulses. The first method is based on applying a single-color polarization gating laser and controlling the orientation angle of the Cl2 molecule with respect to the polarization direction of the laser at the gate window. An attosecond pulse with an ellipticity of 0.66 and a pulse duration of 275 as is achieved by tuning the molecule orientation angle to 40 & DEG; in this method and superposing harmonics around the harmonic cutoff. The second method is based on irradiating an aligned Cl2 molecule with a two-color polarization gating laser. The ellipticity of the attosecond pulses obtained by this method can be controlled by adjusting the intensity ratio of the two colors. Employing an optimized intensity ratio and superposing harmonics around the harmonic cutoff would lead to the generation of an isolated, highly elliptically polarized attosecond pulse with an ellipticity of 0.92 and a pulse duration of 648 as.

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