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We study numerically the Bloch electron wavepacket dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a new perspective in the coordinate space combined with the motion of the Bloch electron wavepackets…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Xiao-Huan Huang , Xue-Bin Bian

We theoretically demonstrate x-ray second harmonic generation (SHG) with strong-field-driven high harmonic generation (HHG) from core electrons in gas-phase atoms, highlighting its potential as a powerful spectroscopic tool for studying…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Xinhua Xie

Using a fully real-space perspective on high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, we examine the relationship between microscopic response, macroscopic propagation of this response to the far field, and the extremely short dephasing times…

We present a study of the possibility to significantly enhance the efficiency of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) using few-cycle optical waveforms obtained by superposing two laser pulses of different color delayed optimally relative…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-11 O. V. Meshkov , M. Yu. Emelin , M. Yu. Ryabikin

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metasurfaces are essential for enhancement of the otherwise small…

High-order harmonic generation in polyatomic molecules generally involves multiple channels, each associated with a different orbital. Their unambiguous assignment remains a major challenge for high-harmonic spectroscopy. Here we present a…

The probing of coherent lattice vibrations in solids has been conventionally carried out using time-resolved transient spectroscopy where only the relative oscillation amplitude can be obtained. Using time-resolved X-ray techniques,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Jicai Zhang , Ziwen Wang , Frank Lengers , Daniel Wigger , Doris E. Reiter , Tilmann Kuhn , Hans Jakob Wörner , Tran Trung Luu

We find that a donor-doped band-gap material can enhance the overall high-order harmonic generation (HHG) efficiency by several orders of magnitude, compared with undoped and acceptor-doped materials. This significant enhancement, predicted…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Chuan Yu , Kenneth K. Hansen , Lars Bojer Madsen

We present a variational augmentation procedure to optimize the exponents of Gaussian continuum basis sets for simulating strong-field laser ionization phenomena such as higher harmonic generation (HHG) in atoms and ions using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Sai Vijay Bhaskar Mocherla , Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

The generation and control of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high harmonic generation (HHG) have advanced ultrafast science, providing direct insights into electron dynamics on their natural time scale. Attosecond science has…

Ultrafast all-optical control of light emission is a central goal of extreme nonlinear optics, with implications for compact short-wavelength sources, petahertz optoelectronics, and label-free superresolution microscopy. High-harmonic…

High harmonic generation (HHG) has developed in recent years as a promising tool for ultrafast materials spectroscopy. At the forefront of these advancements, several works proposed to use HHG as an all-optical probe for topology of quantum…

We present theoretical studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by non-homogeneous fields as resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneity of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

The interaction of light with matter serves as a fundamental tool for probing material properties across a wide range of energy regimes. Recent breakthroughs in tailoring the topology of coherent electromagnetic fields have opened new…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-31 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , M. F. Ciappina , W. Gao

We study the nonlinear optical response in a superconducting NbN thin film with strong terahertz (THz)wave. Besides the expected third harmonic generation, we observe a new transient oscillation which softensin frequency with temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 Z. X. Wang , J. R. Xue , H. K. Shi , X. Q. Jia , T. Lin , L. Y. Shi , T. Dong , F. Wang , N. L. Wang

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of…

Recently, the size-dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in quantum dots has been investigated experimentally. In particular, for longer driving wavelengths and QDs smaller than 3\,nm, HHG was strongly suppressed, however,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Martin Thümmler , Alexander Croy , Ulf Peschel , Stefanie Gräfe

Visualizing the electron dynamics in four dimensions of space and time is crucial to the understanding of several ubiquitous processes in nature. Hence, ultrafast X-ray and electron imaging tools have been developed to probe the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Mingrui Yuan , Nikolay V. Golubev

We study the generation of high harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model transparent solid driven by a strong mid-infrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) using a velocity-gauge…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mengxi Wu , Shambhu Ghimire , David A. Reis , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

Strong field transient grating spectroscopy has shown to be a very versatile tool in time-resolved molecular spectroscopy. Here we use this technique to investigate the high-order harmonic generation from SF6 molecules vibrationally excited…