Chang, Zenghu2023-12-072023-12-072004-10-04https://hdl.handle.net/2097/43656It is proposed that single attosecond pulses be generated by gating high-order harmonic emission with fields whose ellipticity varies rapidly with time. The laser pulse with a time-dependent ellipticity is created from two 5−fs laser pulses centered at 750nm and separated by 5fs. One of the laser pulses is left-circularly polarized and the other is right-circularly polarized. Numerical simulations show that when neon atoms are driven by such laser pulses, the generated high-order harmonic spectrum in the 25th to the 85th orders are a supercontinuum that corresponds to single attosecond pulses. A simple analytical expression is derived for estimating the high-harmonic radiation time.© American Physical Society (APS). This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/https://web.archive.org/web/20181120135245/https://journals.aps.org/copyrightFAQ.htmlText