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The production of brighter coherent XUV radiation by intense laser pulses through the process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) is a central challenge in contemporary nonlinear optics. We study the generation and spatial propagation of high…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-03 Margarita Khokhlova , Vasily Strelkov

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases leads to short-pulse extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation useful in a number of applications, for example, attosecond science and nanoscale imaging. However, this process depends on many…

Using time-dependent density functional theory, high-harmonic generation (HHG) is studied in one-dimensional structures of sizes from a single nucleus up to hundreds of nuclei. The HHG cutoff is observed to extent linearly with the system…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Kenneth K. Hansen , Dieter Bauer , Lars Bojer Madsen

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a second-order nonlinear optical process that is not allowed in media with inversion sym-metry. However, due to the broken symmetry at the surface, surface SHG still occurs, but is generally small. We…

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

The high-order harmonic generation (HHG), if phase matched, opens a unique way to produce coherent ultrafast extreme-UV (XUV) or soft x-ray light sources. Here we describe a robust and tunable method for scaling and narrowing the bandwidth…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-03 L. Mashhadi , G. Shayeganrad

Recent years have witnessed significant developments in the study of nonlinear properties of various optical materials at the nanoscale. However, in most cases experimental results on harmonic generation from nanostructured materials are…

We propose a novel method for controlling the high-harmonic generation (HHG) with a high dynamic range in single-layer graphene. We find that, by utilizing shear strain, a significant enhancement or quenching of HHG is possible over a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Tomohiro Tamaya , Hidefumi Akiyama , Takeo Kato

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an established means of producing coherent, short wavelength, ultrafast pulses from a compact set-up. Table-top high-harmonic sources are increasingly being used to image physical and biological systems…

Plasmon resonances are known to amplify the electromagnetic fields near metallic nanostructures. Therefore, they are considered to provide a promising scheme to generate extreme-ultraviolet harmonics, using low power drivings. During…

Photonic moir\'e superlattice as an emerging platform of flatbands can tightly confine the light inside the cavity and has important applications not only in linear optics but also in nonlinear optics. In this paper, we numerically…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-09 Tingyin Ning , Yingying Ren , Yanyan Huo , Yangjian Cai

The generation of high harmonics in laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomics (H2+, N2 and O2) compared to that in atomic counterparts (of nearly identical binding energy) is studied within the velocity gauge version of conventional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir I. Usachenko , Pavel E. Pyak , Shih-I Chu

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process that enables table-top generation of tunable, high-energy, coherent, ultrashort radiation pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to soft X-ray range. These pulses find applications in…

The long standing issue of separating resonant from non-resonant processes in extreme nonlinear optics is resolved. The theoretical formalism is applied to high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids and reveals a deeper view into the dominant…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-03 A. Thorpe , N. Boroumand , A. M. Parks , E. Goulielmakis , T. Brabec

We demonstrate that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids dominantly originates from strongly localized surface states through non-perturbative processes. Measurements reveal that HHG from bulk states is suppressed by at least 1-2 orders…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Seres , E. Seres , C. Serrat , T. Schumm

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

High harmonic generation (HHG) has unleashed the power of strong laser physics in solids. Here we investigate HHG from a large system, solid C$_{60}$, with 240 valence electrons engaging harmonic generation at each crystal momentum, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-23 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

High harmonic generation (HHG) takes place in all phases of matter. In gaseous atomic and molecular media, it has been extensively studied and is very well-understood. In solids research is ongoing, but a consensus is forming for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ofer Neufeld , Zahra Nourbakhsh , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio

The enhancement and control of non-linear phenomena at a nanometer scale has a wide range of applications in science and in industry. Among these phenomena, high-harmonic generation in solids is a recent focus of research to realize next…

By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the extended Hubbard model on a periodic chain, HHG close to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-07 Can Shao , Hantao Lu , Xiao Zhang , Chao Yu , Takami Tohyama , Ruifeng Lu