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Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Apr 07;118(14):143201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.143201. Epub 2017 Apr 03.

Ultimate Limit in the Spectral Resolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Combs.

Physical review letters

C Corsi, I Liontos, M Bellini, S Cavalieri, P Cancio Pastor, M Siciliani de Cumis, R Eramo

Affiliations

  1. European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
  2. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
  3. Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO-CNR), Largo E. Fermi 6, I-50125 Firenze, Italy.
  4. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Contrada Terlecchia, I-75100 Matera, Italia.

PMID: 28430481 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.143201

Abstract

We present the results of direct interferometric measurements on the pulse-to-pulse phase jitter of a metrological, fiber-based, infrared (IR) frequency comb. We show that the short-time evolution of such phase fluctuations, which cannot be actively controlled by any feedback system, imposes a stringent limit on the tooth linewidth of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) combs produced by high-order harmonic conversion, thus explaining the difference of 9 orders of magnitude between the coherence times of state-of-the-art IR and XUV frequency combs.

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