Attosecond Pulse Amplification in a Plasma-Based X-Ray Laser Dressed by an Infrared Laser Field

V A Antonov; K Ch Han; T R Akhmedzhanov; Marlan Scully; Olga Kocharovskaya

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243903

Attosecond Pulse Amplification in a Plasma-Based X-Ray Laser Dressed by an Infrared Laser Field

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Dec 13;123(24):243903. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243903.

Authors

V A Antonov^{1

2}, K Ch Han³, T R Akhmedzhanov³, Marlan Scully³, Olga Kocharovskaya³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.
² Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA.

PMID: 31922815
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243903

Abstract

High-harmonic generation (HHG) of laser radiation has led to attosecond pulse formation which offers unprecedented temporal resolution in observing and controlling electron and nuclear dynamics. But the energy of attosecond pulses remains quite small, especially for photon energies exceeding 100 eV, which limits their practical applications. We propose a method for amplification of attosecond pulses in the active medium of a plasma-based x-ray laser dressed by a replica of the laser field used for HHG. The experimental implementation is suggested in hydrogenlike C5+ x-ray laser at 3.4 nm wavelength in the "water window" range.