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Generation of an Attosecond Pulse Based on Collective Spontaneous Radiation Emission of a Layer of Three-Level Atoms Excited by a Pair of Unipolar Pulses

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A method of coherent controlling the polarization of a medium has been proposed recently for the generation of extremely short pulses. The method is based on the excitation of atomic polarization oscillations and their subsequent stop using a pair of ultrashort pulses. The so-called stopped pulse of the polarization of a medium, which arises in the interval between its excitation and deexcitation, can be a source of an extremely short radiation pulse. In this work, the above-indicated possibility of generation of an isolated attosecond ultraviolet pulse in a three-level resonant medium whose parameters correspond to a hydrogen atom excited by a pair of unipolar X-ray pulses is considered theoretically. In this case, the generation mechanism is of the antenna-type, that is, it is caused by the collective spontaneous emission of pre-phased atoms in the absence of a noticeable decay of their free polarization.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Vl.V. Kocharovskii, E.R. Kocharovskaya, and S.A. Pul’kin for helpful discussions and valuable remarks.

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This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-19-01097-P).

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    R. M. Arkhipov, M. V. Arkhipov & A. V. Pakhomov

  2. ITMO University, 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia

    R. M. Arkhipov, M. V. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov & N. N. Rosanov

  3. Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    R. M. Arkhipov & N. N. Rosanov

  4. Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    I. Babushkin

  5. Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering—Innovation across Disciplines), 30167, Hannover, Germany

    I. Babushkin

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Arkhipov, R.M., Arkhipov, M.V., Babushkin, I. et al. Generation of an Attosecond Pulse Based on Collective Spontaneous Radiation Emission of a Layer of Three-Level Atoms Excited by a Pair of Unipolar Pulses. Opt. Spectrosc. 128, 1857–1864 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X20110028

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