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We propose a novel amplification mechanism for high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids by leveraging bandgap engineering with momentum k-gaps. By constructing a simple diatomic lattice featuring balanced, alternating gain and loss…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yiming Pan , Danni Chen , Xiaoxi Xu , Zhaopin Chen , Huaiqiang Wang

The spectra produced by high-harmonic generation (HHG) typically exhibit well-defined peaks at odd integers times the laser frequency. However, in recent investigations of HHG from correlated materials, spectra exhibit signals at noninteger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Thomas Hansen , Lars Bojer Madsen

We present theoretical predictions of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the interaction of short femtosecond laser pulses with metal nanotips. It has been demonstrated that high energy electrons can be generated using…

The emerging possibilities to steer and control electronic motion on subcycle time scales with strong electric fields enable studying the nonperturbative optical response and Bloch bands' topological properties, originated from Berry's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh

High harmonic generation (HHG) opens a window on the fundamental science of strong-field light-mater interaction and serves as a key building block for attosecond optics and metrology. Resonantly enhanced HHG from hot spots in…

The Quantitative Rescattering Theory (QRS) for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by intense laser pulses is presented. According to the QRS, HHG spectra can be expressed as a product of a returning electron wave packet and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Anh-Thu Le , R. R. Lucchese , S. Tonzani , T. Morishita , C. D. Lin

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a crucial technology for compact, high-brightness extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and soft X-ray sources, which are key to advancing both fundamental and applied sciences. The availability of advanced driving…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Robert Klas , Martin Gebhardt , Jan Rothhardt , Jens Limpert

Two different induced effects of a laser falling edge on high-order harmonic generation are resolved by solving numerically full-dimensional electronic time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. Vafaee , H. Ahmadi , A. Maghari

Plasma surface high-order harmonics generation (SHHG) driven by intense laser pulses on plasma targets enables a high-quality extreme ultraviolet source with high pulse energy and outstanding spatiotemporal coherence. Optimizing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Lili Fan , Ziwei Wang , Chenfei Liao , Jingwei Wang

Solid-state high-harmonic spectroscopy allows the study of strongly driven ultrafast electron dynamics. Microscopically, high harmonics are generated by strong-laser-field acceleration of electron-hole pairs through the lattice. At finite…

For the high-order harmonic generation in solids, we find a distinct and clean interference pattern in the high-energy end of the spectrum which can be interpreted as a Michelson interferometer of the Bloch electron. Our results are…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases has been studied for almost 40 years in many different conditions, varying the laser wavelength, intensity, focusing geometry, target design, gas species, etc. However, no systematic…

Non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently been observed in the liquid phase, where it was demonstrated to have a different physical mechanism compared to gas and solid phases of matter. The currently best physical picture…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from molecular ion HeH$^{2+}$ in two initial states of $1s\sigma$ (ground state) and $2p\sigma$ (first excited state) is investigated theoretically, in homogeneous and plasmonic-enhanced laser fields.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nehzat Safaei

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in condensed-matter systems is both a source of fundamental insight into quantum electron motion and a promising candidate to realize compact ultraviolet and ultrafast light sources. Here we argue that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Joel D. Cox , Andrea Marini , F. Javier García de Abajo

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in the relativistic regime is employed to obtain zeptosecond pulses of $\gamma$-rays. The harmonics are generated from atomic systems in counterpropagating strong attosecond laser pulse trains of linear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-07-20 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids - the frequency up-conversion of an optical signal - is governed by symmetries. At terahertz (THz) frequencies, HHG is a key technology to access high frequency spectral windows that are…

High-harmonic generation (HHG), a typical nonlinear optical effect, has been actively studied in electron systems such as semiconductors and superconductors. As a natural extension, we theoretically study HHG from electric polarization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-10 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Masahiro Sato

We experimentally observe longer than long trajectory influence in high order harmonic generation (HHG) by varying the peak intensity of the driving laser field through either direct attenuation, or by chirping the laser pulse. Using a…

This paper focuses on investigating high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under intense near-infrared laser fields. To model the GQD and its interaction with the laser field, we utilize a mean-field approach.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , Kh. V. Sedrakian , G. F. Mkrtchian