Attosecond Pulse Trains (APT) generated by high-harmonic generation (HHG) of high-intensity near-infrared (IR) laser pulses have proven valuable for studying the electronic dynamics of atomic and molecular species. However, the high intensities required for high-photon-energy, high-flux HHG usually limit the class of adequate laser systems to repetition rates below 10 kHz. Here, APT's generated from the 100 kHz, 160 W, 40 fs laser system (HR1) of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS) are reconstructed using the Reconstruction of Attosecond Beating By Interference of two-photon Transitions (RABBIT) technique. These experiments constitute the first attosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy measurements performed at 100 kHz repetition rate and the first attosecond experiments performed at ELI-ALPS. These RABBIT measurements were taken with an additional IR field temporally locked to the extremeultraviolet APT, resulting in an atypical ω beating. We show that the phase of the 2ω beating recorded under these conditions is strictly identical to that observed in standard RABBIT measurements within second-order perturbation theory. This work highlights an experimental simplification for future experiments based on attosecond interferometry (or RABBIT), which is particularly useful when lasers with high average powers are used.
Attosecond photoionization delays have mostly been interpreted within the single-particle approximation of multi-electron systems. The strong electron correlation between the photoionization channels associated with the 3p and 3s orbitals of argon presents an interesting arena where this single-particle approximation breaks down. Around photon energies of 42 eV, the 3s photoionization channel of argon experiences a "Cooper-like" minimum, which is exclusively the result of inter-electronic correlations with the 3p shell. Photoionization delays around this "Cooper-like" minimum have been predicted theoretically, but experimental verification has remained a challenge since the associated photoionization cross section is inherently very low. Here, we report the measurement of photoionization delays around the Cooper-like minimum that were acquired with the 100 kHz High-Repetition 1 laser system at the ELI-ALPS facility. We report relative photoionization delays reaching up to unprecedented values of 430±20 as, as a result of electron correlation. Our experimental results are in partial agreement with state-of-the-art theoretical results, but also demonstrate the need for additional theoretical developments.
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