Replication Data for: Attosecond metrology of vacuum-ultraviolet high-order harmonics generated in semiconductors via laser-dressed photoionization of alkali metals

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Semiconductor crystals driven by strong mid-infrared pulses offer advantages for studying many-body physics and ultrafast optoelectronics via high-harmonic generation. While the process has been used to study solids in the presence strong mid-infrared fields, its potential as an attosecond light source is largely underexplored. We demonstrate that high-harmonics emitted from zinc-oxide crystals produce attosecond pulses, measured through spectroscopy of alkali metals. Using a cross-correlation approach, we photoionize Cesium atoms with vacuum-ultraviolet high-harmonics in the presence of a mid-infrared laser field. We observe oscillations in the photoelectron yield, originating from the instantaneous polarization of atoms by the laser field. The phase of these oscillations encodes the attosecond synchronization of the high-harmonics and is used for attosecond pulse metrology. This source opens new spectral windows for attosecond spectroscopy, enabling studies of bound-state dynamics in natural systems with low ionization energies, while facilitating the generation of non-classical entangled light states in the visible-VUV.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34810/data2158
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Creator Rajak, Debobrata ORCID logo; Nayak, Arjun ORCID logo; Farkas, Balázs; Granados Buitrago, Camilo Andrés ORCID logo; Rivera Dean, Javier ORCID logo; Lamprou, Theocharis ORCID logo; Varju, Katalin ORCID logo; Mairesse, Yann ORCID logo; Ciappina, Marcelo ORCID logo; Lewenstein, Maciej ORCID logo; Tzallas, Paraskevas ORCID logo
Publisher CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
Contributor Lewenstein, Maciej; ELI ALPS Laser Research Institute; TECHNION; Institut de Ciències Fotòniques; Université de Bordeaux; Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference European Union GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001 ; European Union CO2toO2 Nr.:015922 ; European Union HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01 ; Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 101168628 ; LASERLABEUROPE V 871124 ; European Union 871161 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación PGC2018–097027–B–I00 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación 10.13039 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación 501100011033 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación CEX2019–000910–S ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación PID 2019–106901GB–I00 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación PCI 2019–111828–2 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación PCI 2022–132919 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación RTC 2019–007196–7 ; European Union Next Generation EU PRTR–C17.I1 ; Generalitat de Catalunya CERCA program ; Generalitat de Catalunya 2021 SGR 01452 ; Generalitat de Catalunya QuantumCAT U16–011424 ; Generalitat de Catalunya ERDF Operational Program of Catalonia 2014-2020 ; Fundació Cellex ; Fundació Mir-Puig ; Barcelona Supercomputing Center MareNostrum FI–2022–1–0042 ; EU Horizon 2020 FET–OPEN OPTOlogic 899794 ; EU Horizon Europe Program 101080086 ; National Science Center, Poland 2016/20/W/ST4/00314 ; Institut de Ciències Fotòniques QuantumGaudi ; European Union’s Horizon 2020 101029393 ; European Union’s Horizon 2020 847648 ; "La Caixa” ID100010434 ; "La Caixa” 11690013 ; "La Caixa” 11760031 ; "La Caixa” 11770012 ; "La Caixa” 11840013 ; Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 847517 ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación CEX2019-000910-S ; Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación TRANQI ; Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-21-CE30-038-01 ; National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFA1407100 ; Guangdong Province Science and Technology Major Project 2021B0301030005 ; Guangdong Natural Science Foundation 2023A1515010871
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Contact Lewenstein, Maciej (Fundació Institut de Ciències Fotòniques)
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