Abstract:
We have developed an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) frequency comb for performing ultra-high precision spectroscopy on the many XUV transitions found in highly charged ions (HCI). Femtosecond pulses from a 100 MHz phase-stabilized near-infrared frequency comb are amplified and then fed into a femtosecond enhancement cavity (fsEC) inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber. The low-dispersion fsEC coherently superposes several hundred incident pulses and, with a single cylindrical optical element, fully compensates astigmatism at the w0 = 15 µm waist cavity focus. With a gas jet installed there, intensities reaching ∼ 1014 W/cm2 generate coherent high harmonics with a comb spectrum at 100 MHz rate. We couple out of the fsEC harmonics from the 7th up to the 35th (42 eV; 30 nm) to be used in upcoming experiments on HCI frequency metrology.
J. Nauta, J.-H. Oelmann, A. Borodin, A. Ackermann, P. Knauer, I. S. Muhammad, R. Pappenberger, T. Pfeifer, and J. R. C. López-Urrutia, “XUV frequency comb production with an astigmatism-compensated enhancement cavity”, Opt. Express 29, 2624 (2021)
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-29-2-2624&id=446601
Related to Project: B01