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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…

We study the ellipticity of high-order harmonics emitted from CO$_2$ molecule driven by linearly polarized laser fields using numerical simulations within the time-dependent density functional theory. We find that the overall ellipticity of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2024-09-17 Andres Mora , Lauren Bauerle , Yuqing Xia , Agnieszka Jaron

We carried out a joint theoretical and experimental study of the polarization of high-order harmonics generated from ZnO by intense infrared laser pulses. Experimentally we found that the dependence of parallel and perpendicular…

We present a numerical study of the resonant high harmonic generation by tin ions in an elliptically-polarised laser field along with a simple analytical model revealing the mechanism and main features of this process. We show that the…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-22 M. A. Khokhlova , M. Yu. Emelin , M. Yu. Ryabikin , V. V. Strelkov

The present work reports on the generation of short-pulse coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation of controlled polarization. The proposed strategy is based on high-order harmonics generated in pre-aligned molecules. Field-free molecular…

We investigate the influence of intense, elliptically polarized driving fields on high-order harmonic spectra from aligned diatomic molecules. We derive a generalized two-center interference condition for elliptically polarized fields,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. Das , B. B. Augstein , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

A scheme for generating intense high-harmonic optical vortices is proposed. It relies on spin-orbit interaction of light when a relativistically-strong circularly polarized laser pulse irradiates a micro-plasma-waveguide. The intense laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Ke Hu , Longqing Yi

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a striking phenomenon, which reflects the ultrafast dynamics of electrons. Recently, it has been demonstrated that HHG can be used to reconstruct not only the energy band structure but also the geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Atsushi Ono , Shun Okumura , Shohei Imai , Yutaka Akagi

We present studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) at laser intensities well above saturation. We use driving laser pulses which present a particular electron dynamics in the turn-on stage. Our results predict an increasing on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. A. Pérez-Hernández , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein , A. Zaïr , L. Roso

Formation of electron vortices and momentum spirals in photodetachment of the H$^-$ anion driven by isolated ultrashort laser pulses of circular polarization or by pairs of such pulses (of either corotating or counterrotating polarizations)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 M. M. Majczak , F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

We revisit the mechanism of high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by comparing HHG in laser fields with different ellipticities but constant maximum amplitude. It is shown that the cutoff of HHG is strongly extended in a circularly…

We study numerically the interaction between an intense circularly polarized laser field and an electron moving in a potential which has a discrete cylindrical symmetry with respect to the laser pulse propagation direction. This setup…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Ceccherini , D. Bauer

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneities of the local electric field and the confinement of the electron motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , Srdjan S. Acimovic , T. Shaaran , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

Strong-field methods in solids enable new strategies for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy and provide all-optical insights into the electronic properties of condensed matter in reciprocal and real space. Additionally, solid-state media…

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

The interaction of intense mid-infrared laser fields with atoms and molecules leads to a range of new opportunities, from the production of bright, coherent radiation in the soft x-ray range to imaging molecular structures and dynamics with…

We study theoretically the two-center interferences occurring in high harmonic generation from diatomic molecules. By solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, either numerically or with the molecular strong-field approximation, we…

We discuss harmonic generation in the case of laser field-dressed Hamiltonians that are invariant under so-called dynamical symmetry operations. Examples for such systems are molecules which exhibit a discrete rotational symmetry of order N…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 F. Ceccherini , D. Bauer , F. Cornolti

High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hamlet K. Avetissian , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Andreas Knorr

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…