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The first high harmonic spectrum, containing only the odd orders, was observed in experiments 30 years ago (1987). However, a spectrum containing pure even harmonics has never been observed. We investigate the generation of pure even…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hongtao Hu , Na Li , Peng Liu , Ruxin Li , Zhizhan Xu

A theoretical study of the rotational dynamics of a linear polar molecule in a two-color non-resonant cw laser field is presented. By systematically considering the interactions of this field with the electric dipole moment, polarizability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 David Mellado-Alcedo , Niurka R. Quintero , Rosario González-Férez

Topological materials are of interest to both fundamental science and advanced technologies, because topological states are robust with respect to perturbations and dissipation. Experimental detection of topological invariants is thus in…

The selection rules of high harmonic generation (HHG) are investigated using three-dimensional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). From the harmonic spectra obtained with various real molecules and different forms of laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Xi Liu , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Yang Li , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in aligned linear molecules can offer valuable information about strong-field interactions in lower-lying molecular orbitals, but extracting this information is difficult for three-dimensional molecular…

We present an alternative theoretical model for a recent experiment [A.Fleischer et al., Nature Photon. 8, 543 (2014)] which used bichromatic, counter-rotating high intensity laser pulses to probe the conservation of spin angular momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Emilio Pisanty , Misha Ivanov , Suren Sukiasyan

We apply the theory of high-order harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields in the strong field approximation to the study of the spatial and temporal coherence properties of the harmonics. We discuss the role of dynamically induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pascal Salières , Anne L'Huillier , Philippe Antoine , Maciej Lewenstein

When a high-power, femtosecond, circularly polarized (CP) laser pulse is incident on a micrometer-scale aperture in a solid foil target, it drives surface plasma oscillation, generating high-order harmonic vortices in the diffracted light.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Runze Li , Wenchao Yan , Longqing Yi

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned acetylene molecules interacting with mid infra-red (IR), linearly polarized laser pulses is studied theoretically using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Peter Mulholland , Daniel Dundas

The generation of high-order harmonics in bulk solids subjected to intense ultrashort laser pulses has opened up new avenues for research in extreme nonlinear optics and light-matter interaction on sub-cycle timescales. Despite significant…

A scheme for quasi-phase-matching high-harmonic generation is proposed in which polarization beating within a hollow core birefringent waveguide modulates the generation of harmonics. The evolution of the polarization of a laser pulse…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-17 Lewis Z. Liu , Kevin O'Keeffe , Simon M. Hooker

We show that circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses produce field-free alignment in linear and planar molecules. We study the rotational wavepacket evolution of O$_2$ and benzene created by circularly polarized light. For benzene, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 C T L Smeenk , P B Corkum

Circularly-polarized extreme UV and X-ray radiation provides valuable access to the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. To date, this capability was available only at large-scale X-ray facilities such as…

The generation of high-order harmonics in finite, hexagonal nanoribbons is simulated. Ribbons with armchair and zig-zag edges are investigated by using a tight-binding approach with only nearest neighbor hopping. By turning an alternating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Hannah Jürß , Dieter Bauer

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

A high-power laser pulse at normal incidence onto a plane solid target will generate odd harmonics of its frequency. However, the spacing of the harmonic lines in this configuration is fixed. Here, we study harmonic generation using two…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-20 Raoul Trines , Holger Schmitz , Martin King , Paul McKenna , Robert Bingham

We consider several aspects of high-order harmonic generation in solids: the effects of elastic and inelastic scattering; varying pulse characteristics; and inclusion of material-specific parameters through a realistic band structure. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-07 A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

Based upon our previous works (Eur.Phys.J.D 6, 319(1999); Chin.Phys.Lett. 18, 236(2001)), we develop a classical approach to calculate the high-order harmonic generation of the laser driven atoms and molecules. The Coulomb singularities in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaohong Lee , Yiwu Duan , Wing-Ki Liu , Jian-Min Yuan , Lei Shi , Xiwen Zhu , Kelin Gao

We investigate the orientation dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from H$_2^+$ with different internuclear distances irradiated by intense laser fields both numerically and analytically. The calculated molecular HHG spectra…

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

High-order harmonic generation with bicircular fields - the combination of counter-rotating circularly polarized pulses at different frequencies - results in a series of short-wavelength XUV harmonics with alternating circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 Emilio Pisanty , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán