Table-Top Milliwatt-Class Extreme Ultraviolet High Harmonic Light Source

TL;DR

This paper presents a compact, high-power extreme ultraviolet light source based on cascaded frequency conversion, achieving record average power and narrow bandwidth, advancing applications in high-precision spectroscopy.

Contribution

The work introduces the highest average power XUV source in its spectral range using cascaded frequency conversion, surpassing previous benchmarks by over four times.

Findings

Achieved an average output power of 832 μW at 21.7 eV.

Generated a narrow-band harmonic at 26.6 eV with 0.18% bandwidth.

Surpassed previous HHG sources in power by a factor of four.

Abstract

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) lasers are essential for the investigation of fundamental physics. Especially high repetition rate, high photon flux sources are of major interest for reducing acquisition times and improving signal to noise ratios in a plethora of applications. Here, an XUV source based on cascaded frequency conversion is presented, which delivers due to the drastic better single atom response for short wavelength drivers, an average output power of (832 +- 204) {\mu}W at 21.7 eV. This is the highest average power produced by any HHG source in this spectral range surpassing precious demonstrations by more than a factor of four. Furthermore, a narrow-band harmonic at 26.6 eV with a relative energy bandwidth of only {\Delta}E/E= 1.8 x 10E-3 has been generated, which is of high interest for high precision spectroscopy experiments.