English
Related papers

Related papers: Illuminating Molecular Symmetries with Bicircular …

200 papers

Starting from a microscopic model, we investigate the optical spectra of molecules in strongly-coupled organic microcavities examining how they might self-consistently adapt their coupling to light. We consider both rotational and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Justyna A. Cwik , Peter Kirton , Simone De Liberato , Jonathan Keeling

We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By adjusting the laser intensity and focusing position, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Lixin He , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Chunyang Zhai , Feng Wang , Wenjing Shi , Peixiang Lu

We develop a classification of perfectly transmitting resonances occuring in effectively one-dimensional optical media which are decomposable into locally reflection symmetric parts. The local symmetries of the medium are shown to yield…

The optical phase of the driving field in the process of high harmonic generation and the coherence properties of the harmonics are fundamental concepts in attosecond physics. Here, we consider to drive the process by incoherent classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Philipp Stammer

Isotropic gases irradiated by long pulses of intense IR light can generate very high harmonics of the incident field. It is generally accepted that, due to the symmetry of the generating medium, be it an atomic or an isotropic molecular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 R. E. F. Silva , P. Rivière , F. Morales , O. Smirnova , M. Ivanov , F. Martín

The extreme nonlinear optical process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) makes it possible to map the properties of a laser beam onto a radiating electron wavefunction, and in turn, onto the emitted x-ray light. Bright HHG beams typically…

The present work introduces a robust way to generate attosecond pulses with tunable ellipticity via high-order harmonic generation by co-rotating $\omega - 2\omega$ bicircular laser fields. The total electric field of the laser fields…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-02 Rambabu Rajpoot , Amol R. Holkundkar , Navdeep Rana , Gopal Dixit

Synchrotron emission of relativistic particles in magnetic fields is a process of paramount importance in astrophysics. Although known for over thirty years, there are still aspects of this radiative process that have received little…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) results from strong-field laser matter interaction and it is one of the main processes that are used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular targets with…

We generate high-order harmonics at high pulse repetition rates using a turnkey laser. High-order harmonics at 400 kHz are observed when argon is used as target gas. In neon we achieve generation of photons with energies exceeding 90 eV…

This work presents the first steps to modelling synthetic rovibrational spectra for all molecules of astrophysical interest using a new approach implemented in the Prometheus code. The goal is to create a new comprehensive source of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Thomas M. Cross , David M. Benoit , Marco Pignatari , Brad K. Gibson

The formation of diatomic molecules with rotational and vibrational coherence is demonstrated experimentally in free-to-bound two-photon femtosecond photoassociation of hot atoms. In a thermal gas at a temperature of 1000 K, pairs of…

We present the theory of resonance fluorescence from an asymmetric quantum dot driven by a two-component electromagnetic field with two different frequencies, polarizations and amplitudes (bichromatic field) in the regime of strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 G. Yu. Kryuchkyan , V. Shahnazaryan , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

We present a new theory that the molecular high order harmonic generation in an intense laser field is determined by molecular internal symmetry and momentum distribution of the tunneling-ionized electron. The molecular internal symmetry…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-01-30 J. Chen , Y. J. Chen , J. Fan , J. Liu , S. G. Chen , X. T. He

Torque is ubiquitous in many molecular systems, including collisions, chemical reactions, vibrations, electronic excitations and especially rotor molecules. We present a straightforward theoretical method based on forces acting on atoms and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rui-Qin Zhang , Yan-Ling Zhao , Fei Qi , Klaus Hermann , Michel A. Van Hove

In the present article, we introduce a model to investigate the energy spectrum of a relativistic rotor by considering the Klein-Gordon Hamiltonian. Rotational spectral lines are a signature of homonuclear and heteronuclear systems and play…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nagalakshmi A. Rao , B. A. Kagali

High-harmonic generation - the emission of high-frequency radiation by the ionization and subsequent recombination of an atomic electron driven by a strong laser field - is widely understood using a quasiclassical trajectory formalism,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Emilio Pisanty , Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein

We study the light scattering of homogenous radially-anisotropic spherical particles. It is shown that radial anisotropy can be employed to tune effectively the electric resonances, and thus enable flexible overlapping of electric and…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Wei Liu

Electromagnetic scattering from moving bodies, being inherently time-dependent phenomenon, gives rise to a generation of new frequencies, which could characterize the motion. While a standard linear path leads to a constant Doppler shift,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dmitry Filonov , Ben Z. Steinberg , Pavel Ginzburg

Correlation-function expressions are derived for the coherent nonlinear response of molecules to three resonant ultrafast pulses in the x-ray regime. The ability to create two-core-hole states with controlled attosecond timing in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Shaul Mukamel