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Abstract
Compensating for the intrinsic attosecond chirp (atto-chirp) of wideband high-order harmonics in the water window region is a significant challenge, in order to obtain isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) with a width of tens of attoseconds (as). Here, we propose to realize the generation of IAP with duration as short as 20 as, central energy of 365 eV, and bandwidth exceeding 150 eV from chirp-free high harmonics generated by a four-color driving laser, without the necessity for atto-chirp compensation with natural materials. Unlike any other gating methods that an IAP arises from only one electron ionization event, we take advantage of the interference between harmonic radiation produced by multiple ionizing events. We further demonstrate that such chirp-free short IAP survives after taking account of macroscopic propagation effects. Given that the synthesized multicolor laser field can also effectively increase the harmonic flux, this work provides a practical way for experiments to generate the broad bandwidth chirp-free IAPs in the water window region.
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