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A method for the controlled generation of intense high frequency electromagnetic fields by a breaking Langmuir wave (relativistic flying mirrors) in a gradually inhomogeneous plasma is proposed. The wave breaking threshold depends on the…

The interaction of relativistically strong tailored laser pulses with an atomic system is considered. Due to a special tailoring of the laser pulse, the suppression of the relativistic drift of the ionized electron and a dramatic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Klaiber , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

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 develop theoretically and confirm both numerically and experimentally a comprehensive analytical model which describes the propensity rules in the emission of circularly polarized high harmonics by systems driven by two-color…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a strong driving field interacts with a material, resulting in the frequency up-conversion of the driver into its high-order harmonics. This process is highly sensitive to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 J. Rivera-Dean , P. Stammer , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

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…

We theoretically demonstrate a scheme for tomographic reconstruction of asymmetric molecular orbitals based on high-order harmonic generation with a two-color multicycle laser field. It is shown that by adjusting the relative phase of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Meiyan Qin , Xiaosong Zhu , Qingbin Zhang , Peixiang Lu

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

The atomic response to an ultra-intense driving field produces a characteristic high-harmonic spectrum featuring a rapid drop in intensity for the lower harmonics, followed by a plateau and a sharp cutoff. This response vanishes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Lidija Petrovic , Philipp Stammer , Maciej Lewenstein , Javier Rivera-Dean

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 observe the generation of high harmonics in the plane perpendicular to the driving laser polarization and show that these are driven by the spin-orbit interaction. Using R-Matrix with time-dependence theory, we demonstrate that for…

High-order harmonic generation by the diffraction of an intense Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser beam through a small aperture is studied. It is found that the 2D peripheral electron dynamics on the rim can facilitate complex interplay between…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Yao Meng , Runze Li , Longqing Yi

We predict high-order harmonics in which the polarization within the spectral bandwidth of each harmonic varies continuously and significantly. For example, the interaction of counter-rotating circularly-polarized bichromatic drivers having…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-24 Avner Fleischer , Ofer Kfir , Pavel Sidorenko , Oren Cohen

Generation of circularly-polarized high-harmonics with the same helicity to all orders is indispensable for chiral-sensitive spectroscopy with attosecond temporal resolution. Solid-state samples have added a valuable asset in controlling…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Navdeep Rana , M. S. Mrudul , Gopal Dixit

Harmonic generation in the limit of ultra-steep density gradients is studied experimentally. Observations demonstrate that while the efficient generation of high order harmonics from relativistic surfaces requires steep plasma density…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms is a coherent light source that opens up attosecond physics, but it is the application of HHG to solids that brings much of excitement for the last decade. Here we report a completely new kind…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

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), characterized by its highly nonlinear nature, often exhibits a complex spatio-temporal profile that poses challenges for practical applications. In this study, we unveil a method for manipulating the…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Qi Zeng , Yimin Deng , Xinyue Yang , Wei Cao , Peixiang Lu

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has been touted as a way to probe ultrafast dynamics and crystal symmetries in condensed matter systems. Here, we investigate the polarization properties of high-order harmonics generated in…

The laser interaction with an electron-positron-ion mixed plasma is studied, from the perspective of the associated high-order harmonic generation. For an idealized mixed plasma which is assumed with a sharp plasma-vacuum interface and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , K. M. Schoeffler , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva