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In laser-plasma experiments, we observed that ion acceleration from the Coulomb explosion of the plasma channel bored by the laser, is prevented when multiple plasma instabilities such as filamentation and hosing, and nonlinear coherent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 F. Sylla , A. Flacco , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , A. Lifschitz , G. Sanchez-Arriaga , E. Lefebvre , V. Malka

The high harmonic generation from atoms in the combination of chirped laser pulse and static field is theoretically investigated. For the first time, we explore a further physical mechanism of the significant extension of high harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yang Xiang , Yueping Niu , Shangqing Gong

The harmonic generation has always been of fundamental interest in studying the nonlinear nature of any physical system. In the present study, Particle - In - Cell (PIC) simulations have been carried out to explore the harmonic generation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Trishul Dhalia , Rohit Juneja , Laxman Prasad Goswami , Srimanta Maity , Amita Das

We use finite-difference time-domain modelling to investigate plasma generation induced by multi-photon absorption of intense laser light in dielectrics with tiny inhomogenities. Plasma generation is found to be strongly amplified around…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Robert Buschlinger , Stefan Nolte , Ulf Peschel

In this letter, we report Doppler harmonic generation with a relativistic plasma mirror at unprecedented intensities $>10^{21} ~\textrm{W/cm}^2$ using a PetaWatt-class laser. We show that beyond a few $10^{21} ~\textrm{W/cm}^2$ a precise…

Irradiating intercalated nanorings by optical vortices ignites a charge flow that emits coherent trains of high harmonic bursts with frequencies and time structures that are controllable by the topological charge of the driving vortex beam.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 J. Wätzel , J. Berakdar

The electron dynamics of rare gas clusters in laser fields is investigated quantum mechanically by means of time-dependent density functional theory. The mechanism of early inner and outer ionization is revealed. The formation of an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Bauer , A. Macchi

We calculate high-harmonic generation (HHG) by intense infrared lasers in atoms and molecules with the inclusion of macroscopic propagation of the harmonics in the gas medium. We show that the observed experimental spectra can be accurately…

In present paper we develop an analytic theory for the harmonic generation of symmetric diatomic molecular ions beyond two-level model, emphasizing the influence of charge-resonance (CR) states those are strongly coupled to electromagnetic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanjun Chen , Jing Chen , Jie Liu

We investigate the effect of dynamic electron correlation on high-harmonic generation in helium atoms using intense visible light (\lambda=390nm). Two complementary approaches are used which account for correlation in an approximate manner:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 G. A. McKenna , R. Nepstad , J. F. McCann , D. Dundas

It is shown that when an few-cycle, relativistically intense, p-polarized laser pulse is obliquely incident on overdense plasma, the surface electrons may form ultra-thin, highly compressed layers, with a width of a few nanometers. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 D. an der Brügge , A. Pukhov

Scattering of ultraintense short laser pulses off relativistic electrons allows one to generate a large number of X- or $\gamma$-ray photons with the expense of the spectral width---temporal pulsing of the laser inevitable leads to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Daniel Seipt , Vasily Yu. Kharin , Sergey G. Rykovanov

In present paper, we describe a theoretical model of generation of harmonic emissions of type III solar radio bursts. The goal of our study is to fully take into account the most efficient physical processes participating in generation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Anna Tkachenko , Vladimir Krasnoselskikh , Andrii Voshchepynets

We theoretically investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in Rydberg atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous laser fields, induced, for instance, by plasmonic enhancement. It is well known that the laser intensity should to exceed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Y. Tikman , I. Yavuz , M. F. Ciappina , A. Chacon , Z. Altun , M. Lewenstein

We investigate the heating of the quasi-free electrons in large rare gas clusters (N exceeding 10^5 atoms) by short laser pulses at moderate intensities (I~10^{15} Wcm^{-2}). We identify elastic large-angle backscattering of electrons at…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Deiss , N. Rohringer , E. Lamour , C. Prigent , J. -P. Rozet , D. Vernhet , J. Burgdorfer

Head-on collision of laser-induced plasma wakefields with differing profiles of electrostatic potential has been recently found to be an efficient mechanism for generating high-power electromagnetic emission at the second harmonic of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 E. Volchok , V. Annenkov , I. Timofeev

We present a classical model for high harmonic generation during the propagation of an intense laser pulse through an atomic gas. Numerical simulations of the model show excellent quantitative agreement with the corresponding quantum model…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. A. Berman , J. Dubois , C. Chandre , M. Perin , T. Uzer

Research of the nonlinear optical characteristics of transition metal dichalcogenides in the presence of photoactive particles, plasmonic nanocavities, waveguides, and metamaterials is still in its early stages. This investigation delves…

A comparative experimental study of pulsed laser ablation in vacuum of two binary semiconductors, zinc oxide and indium phosphide, has been performed using IR-and visible laser pulses with particular attention to cluster generation. Neutral…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-24 Alexander Bulgakov , Anton Evtushenko , Yuri Shukhov , Igor Ozerov , Wladimir Marine

We theoretically investigate correlated electron dynamics in high-harmonic generation (HHG), using all-electron \emph{ab initio} simulations for three-dimensional real alkali-metal atoms. The resulting harmonic spectra exhibit a plateau…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Yang Li , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa