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National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 11(116), p. 4779-4787, 2019

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817626116

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Spatiotemporal coupling of attosecond pulses

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Abstract

Significance In most optics textbooks, one writes the electric field describing an optical wave as a product of temporal and spatial amplitudes. This approximation often breaks down for short optical pulses. An example of such spatiotemporal coupling is chromatic aberrations, where the focal properties of the radiation vary with frequency over the pulse bandwidth. In this work, we point out significant chromatic aberrations of attosecond pulses, which depend on the geometry of the generation process. These aberrations are intrinsic to the generation process and need to be eliminated in applications requiring attosecond pulses to be focused over a small region.