Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 51, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/aad49c
Keywords
high harmonic generation; water window; single-shot absorption spectroscopy; infrared laser; self-channelling
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- NSERC
- PROMPT
- Canada Foundation for Innovation-Major Science Initiatives
- AFOSR [FA9550-16-1-0149]
- NSERC BESC D. scholarship
- MITACS Accelerate program
- Vanier scholarship
- Romanian Financing Authority CNDI-UEFISCDI project [RO-CERN ELI-NP 03-ELI/2016]
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Owing to the increasing significance of high harmonic generation (HHG) as a tabletop coherent x-ray source and the coming of age of intense infrared (IR) lasers, the development of high brightness soft x-ray beamlines is gaining a lot of attention. We discuss the self-guided propagation of high energy IR pulses around 1.8 mu m centre wavelength being loosely focused into a long, high-pressure gas cell. A bright x-ray beam with photon energies extending up to the oxygen K-edge at 543 eV is achieved with a flux of 2.9 x 10(3) photons/shot/1% bandwidth around the carbon K-edge (280 eV). We provide experimental and numerical evidence of an ionization steady state condition in the generation medium causing self-channelling and intensity clamping of the driving field. While the later limits the HHG cut-off energy for a given driving field wavelength, self-channelling increases the HHG flux through a longer, phase-matched, interaction length and provides a well-collimated HHG beam covering more than three octaves from <50 to 550 eV.
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