Journal
FIBER LASERS XVII: TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
Volume 11260, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/12.2546151
Keywords
Nonlinear pulse compression; high harmonic generation; fiber laser; mid-IR laser
Funding
- Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence 'Advanced photon sources'
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [13N13973]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [IRTG 2101]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [835306]
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Intense, ultrafast laser sources with an emission wavelength beyond the well-established near-IR are important tools for exploiting the wavelength scaling laws of strong-field, light-matter interactions. In particular, such laser systems enable high photon energy cut-off HHG up to, and even beyond, the water window thus enabling a plethora of subsequent experiments. Ultrafast thulium-doped fiber laser systems (providing a broad amplification bandwidth in the 2 mu m wavelength region) represent a promising, average-power scalable laser concept in this regard. These lasers already deliver similar to 100 fs pulses with multi-GW peak power at hundreds of kHz repetition rate. In this work, we show that combining ultrafast thulium-doped fiber CPA systems with hollow-core fiber based nonlinear pulse compression is a promising approach to realize high photon energy cut-off HHG drivers. Herein, we show that thulium-doped, fiber-laser-driven HHG in argon can access the highly interesting spectral region around 90 eV. Additionally, we show the first water window high-order harmonic generation experiment driven by a high repetition rate, thulium-doped fiber laser system. In this proof of principle demonstration, a photon energy cut-off of approximately 400 eV has been achieved, together with a photon flux >10(5) ph/s/eV at 300 eV. These results emphasize the great potential of exploiting the HHG wavelength scaling laws with 2 mu m fiber laser technology. Improvements of the HHG efficiency, the overall HHG yield and further laser performance enhancements will be the subject of our future
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