Isolated sub-30-as pulse generation of anHe+ion by an intense few-cycle chirped laser and its high-order harmonic pulses

Abstract

We present an efficient method to generate a ultrashort attosecond (as) pulse when a model ${\text{He}}^{+}$ ion is exposed to the combination of an intense few-cycle chirped laser pulse and its 27th harmonics. By solving the time-dependent Schr\odinger equation, we found that high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from ${\text{He}}^{+}$ ion is enhanced by seven orders of magnitude due to the presence of the harmonic pulse. After optimizing the chirp of the fundamental pulse, we show that the cut-off energy of the generated harmonics is extended effectively to ${I}_{p}+25.5{U}_{p}$. As a result, an isolated 26-as pulse with a bandwidth of 170.5 eV can be obtained directly from the supercontinuum around the cut-off of HHG. To better understand the physical origin of HHG enhancement and attosecond pulse emission, we perform semiclassical simulations and analyze the time-frequency characteristics of attosecond pulse.