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High harmonic generation traditionally combines ~100 near-infrared laser photons, to generate bright, phase matched, extreme ultraviolet beams when the emission from many atoms adds constructively. Here we show that by guiding a…

High harmonic generation due to the interaction of a short ultra relativistic laser pulse with overdense plasma is studied analytically and numerically. On the basis of the ultra relativistic similarity theory we show that the high harmonic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Baeva , S. Gordienko , A. Pukhov

We demonstrate analytically and numerically that focusing of high harmonics produced by the reflection of a few femtosecond laser pulse from a concave plasma surface opens a new way towards unprecedentally high intensities. The key features…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gordienko , A. Pukhov , O. Shorokhov , T. Baeva

Second-harmonic emission at a frequency that is twice the laser frequency is an important diagnostic for nonlinear laser-plasma interaction. It is forbidden for centrosymmetric materials such as the bulk of sapphire. The symmetry, however,…

We demonstrated nonperturbative high harmonics induced by intense mid-infrared light up to 18th order that well exceed the material bandgap in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. The intensities of the even-order high-harmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Naotaka Yoshikawa , Kohei Nagai , Kento Uchida , Yuhei Takaguchi , Shogo Sasaki , Yasumitsu Miyata , Koichiro Tanaka

Optical properties of periodic arrays of nanoholes of a triangular shape with experimentally realizable parameters are examined in both linear and nonlinear regimes. Utilizing fully vectorial three-dimensional approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Elena Drobnyh , Maxim Sukharev

The acceleration of ions in the interaction of high intensity laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated with particle-in-cell simulations. For circular polarization of the laser pulses, high-density ion bunches moving into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Macchi , Federica Cattani , Tatiana V. Liseykina , Fulvio Cornolti

Effects of the laser pulse wavelength and intensity on the HHG production from the \textit{ionic} and \textit{homolytic} pre-ionization transient states of the two-electron H$_{2}$ system exposed to ultrashort intense laser pulses are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Behnaz Buzari , Mohsen Vafaee , Hassan Sabzyan

When a high power laser beam irradiates a small aperture on a solid foil target, the strong laser field drives surface plasma oscillation at the periphery of this aperture, which acts as a "relativistic oscillating window". The diffracted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Longqing Yi

A propagation of an ultra-intense short laser pulse in a fiber is investigated with two dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. The fiber is a narrow hollow channel with walls consisting of overdense plasma. In the nonlinear interaction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , N. M. Naumova , I. V. Sokolov

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned molecules in strong elliptically polarized laser fields numerically and analytically. Our simulations show that the spectra and polarization of HHG depend strongly on the molecular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 F. J. Sun , C. Chen , W. Y. Li , X. Liu , W. Li , Y. J. Chen

High-harmonic generation in solids allows probing and controlling electron dynamics in crystals on few femtosecond timescales, paving the way to lightwave electronics. In the spatial domain, recent advances in the real-space interpretation…

The influence of laser frequency on laser-driven ion acceleration is investigated by means of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. When ultrashort intense laser pulse at higher harmonic frequency irradiates a thin solid foil, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Jan Psikal , Ondrej Klimo , Stefan Weber , Daniele Margarone

Semi-classical molecular dynamics simulations of small rare gas clusters in short laser pulses of 100 nm wavelength were performed. For comparison, the cluster response to 800 nm laser pulses was investigated as well. The inner ionization…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Bauer

Optimal control techniques combined with femtosecond laser pulse shaping are applied to steer and enhance the strong-field induced emission of highly charged atomic ions from silver clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets. With light…

Generation of high intensity attopulses is investigated in cylindrical geometry by using 3D particle-in-cell plasma simulation code. Due to the rotation symmetric target, a circularly polarized laser pulse is considered propagating on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Zsolt Lécz , Alexander Andreev

We investigate high-order harmonic generation in inhomogeneous media for reduced dimensionality models. We perform a phase-space analysis, in which we identify specific features caused by the field inhomogeneity. We compute high-order…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 C. Zagoya , M. Bonner , H. Chomet , E. Slade , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

We investigate the process of circularly polarized high harmonic generation in molecules using a bicircular laser field. In this context, we show that molecules offer a very robust framework for the production of circularly polarized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 F Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk , T Uzer

Detailed spectra of harmonics produced from ultra-intense, sub-picosecond, high-contrast laser pulses incident on solid targets have shown the first observation of regular red- and blue-shifted satellites. Their frequency shift is slightly…

Pronounced maximum absorption of laser light irradiating a rare-gas or metal cluster is widely expected during the linear resonance (LR) when Mie-plasma wavelength $\lambdaM$ of electrons equals the laser wavelength $\lambda$. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 S. S. Mahalik , M. Kundu