Table-top extreme ultraviolet second harmonic generation

Tobias Helk, Emma Berger, Sasawat Jamnuch, Lars Hoffmann, Adeline Kabacinski, Julien Gautier, Fabien Tissandier, Jean Philipe Goddet, Hung Tzu Chang, Juwon Oh, C. Das Pemmaraju, Tod A. Pascal, Stephane Sebban, Christian Spielmann, Michael Zuerch

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Abstract

The lack of available table-top extreme ultraviolet (XUV) sources with high enough fluxes and coherence properties has limited the availability of nonlinear XUV and x-ray spectroscopies to free-electron lasers (FELs). Here, we demonstrate second harmonic generation (SHG) on a table-top XUV source by observing SHG near the Ti M2,3 edge with a high-harmonic seeded soft x-ray laser. Furthermore, this experiment represents the first SHG experiment in the XUV. First-principles electronic structure calculations suggest the surface specificity and separate the observed signal into its resonant and nonresonant contributions. The realization of XUV-SHG on a table-top source opens up more accessible opportunities for the study of element-specific dynamics in multicomponent systems where surface, interfacial, and bulk-phase asymmetries play a driving role.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereabe2265
JournalScience advances
Volume7
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2021

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