Evidence of depolarization and ellipticity of high harmonics driven by ultrashort bichromatic circularly polarized fields

oleh: Lou Barreau, Kévin Veyrinas, Vincent Gruson, Sébastien J. Weber, Thierry Auguste, Jean-François Hergott, Fabien Lepetit, Bertrand Carré, Jean-Christophe Houver, Danielle Dowek, Pascal Salières

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-11-01

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Polarization parameters of the high harmonics driven by bichromatic circularly polarized pulses are usually assumed near perfect. Here the authors use polarimetry measurement to show that depolarization and ellipticity can arise from symmetry breaking in the ionization of a medium by the ultrashort driving fields.