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An extreme-ultraviolet frequency comb enabling frequency metrology with highly charged ions

Nauta, Janko

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Abstract

Highly charged ions (HCI) have been proposed as extremely sensitive probes for physics beyond the Standard Model, such as a possible α-variation, and as novel frequency standards, due to their insensitivity to external fields. We aim at performing ultra-high precision spectroscopy of HCI in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) region, where many transitions are located. Therefore, we have developed an XUV frequency comb. Femtosecond pulses from a 100 MHz phase-stabilized near-infrared comb are amplified and fed into an enhancement cavity inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber. In the tight focus (w0 = 15 μm) of the astigmatism-compensated cavity, intensities ~10^14 W/cm^2 are reached. As a first application, we perform multi-photon ionization of xenon using the velocity-map imaging technique. The high repetition rate facilitates fast data acquisition even at low intensities, enabling future precision tests in nonlinear physics. Finally, we have observed outcoupled XUV radiation, produced in the cavity focus, up to the 35th harmonic order (42 eV; 30 nm). No signs of mirror degradation were observed during five hours of continuous operation. Using He:Xe gas mixtures, improved phase-matching conditions led to 49 μW output power at 16 eV. This is sufifcient to drive HCI transitions with kHz excitation rates and is an important step towards XUV frequency metrology with HCI.

Document type: Dissertation
Supervisor: Crespo López-Urrutia, PD Dr. José R.
Place of Publication: Heidelberg
Date of thesis defense: 29 July 2020
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2020 12:01
Date: 2020
Faculties / Institutes: The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy > Dekanat der Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
DDC-classification: 530 Physics
Controlled Keywords: Atomphysik, Experimentalphysik, Optischer Frequenzkamm, Ultraviolettspektroskopie, Lasertechnologie, Resonator, Fotoionisation, Optische Uhr, Xenon
Uncontrolled Keywords: atomic physics, intra-cavity high harmonic generation, HHG, frequency comb, extreme ultraviolet, XUV, femtosecond enhancement cavity, fsEC, frequency metrology, XUV spectroscopy, highly charged ions, HCI, ultra-high vacuum, UHV, laser technology, multi-photon ionization, velocity-map imaging, VMI, optical atomic clock, xenon
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