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Exceptional points are complex-valued spectral singularities that lead to a host of intriguing features such as loss-induced transparency - a counterintuitive process in which an increase in the system's overall loss can lead to enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Konrad Tschernig , Kurt Busch , Demetrios N. Christodoulides , Armando Perez-Leija

We present a semiclassical model for plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic generation (HHG) in the vicinity of metal nanostructures. We show that both the inhomogeneity of the enhanced local fields and electron absorption by the metal surface play…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-29 A. Husakou , S. -J. Im , J. Herrmann

The recent observation of high-harmonic generation from solids creates a new possibility for engineering fundamental strong-field processes by patterning the solid target with subwavelength nanostructures. All-dielectric metasurfaces…

Nanophotonics research has focused recently on the ability of non-linear optical processes to mediate and transform optical signals in a myriad of novel devices, including optical modulators, transducers, color filters, photodetectors,…

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by multiple superconductors and discover the emergence of exceptional points entirely determined by the interplay of the distinct superconducting phases and non-Hermiticity due to normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

This Letter brings together two topics that, until now, have been the focus of intense but non-overlapping research efforts. The first concerns high harmonic generation in solids, which occurs when intense light field excites highly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 R. E. F. Silva , Igor V. Blinov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , O. Smirnova , M. Ivanov

A theoretical optimization method of high-harmonic-generation (HHG) is developed in the framework of optimal-control-theory (OCT). The target of optimization is the emission radiation of a particular frequency. The OCT formulation includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Ido Schaefer , Ronnie Kosloff

Here we demonstrate a novel smart magnetoplasmonic heterostructure for efficient control of light. It consists of gold nanoparticles embedded in a thin magnetic film covered with a gold layer pierces with periodic nanoslit array. Unique…

We propose a theoretical scheme in a cold Rubidium-87 ($^{87}$Rb) atomic ensemble with a non-Hermitian optical structure, in which a lopsided optical diffraction grating can be realized just with the combination of single spatially periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Da Huo , Shuo Hua , Xue-Dong Tian , Yi-Mou Liu

We generate high-order harmonics in gaseous medium with tunable photon energy using time domain interferometry of double pulses in a non-collinear generation geometry. The method is based on the fact that the generated harmonics inherit…

High harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors and insulators has become a very active area of research due to its great potential for developing compact HHG devices. Here we show that by growing monolayers (ML) of insulators on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Néstor F. Aguirre , Fernando Martín

We introduce a modular approach for efficiently interfacing photonic integrated circuits with deep-sub-wavelength hybrid plasmonic functionality. We demonstrate that an off-the-shelf silicon-on-insulator waveguide can be post-processed into…

We have conducted a theoretical study of harmonic generation from a silver grating having slits filled with GaAs. By working in the enhanced transmission regime, and by exploiting phase-locking between the pump and its harmonics, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Vincenti , D. de Ceglia , V. Roppo , M. Scalora

Complex potential and non-Hermitian hopping amplitude are building blocks of a non-Hermitian quantum network. Appropriate configuration, such as PT-symmetric distribution, can lead to the full real spectrum. To investigate the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 X. Z. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Anomalous high-harmonic generation (HHG) arises in certain solids when irradiated by an intense laser field, as the result of a nonlinear perpendicular current akin to a Hall current. Here, we theoretically characterize the anomalous HHG…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Lun Yue , Mette B. Gaarde

Coupling quantum emitters and nanostructures, in particular cold atoms and waveguides, has recently raised a large interest due to unprecedented possibilities of engineering light-matter interactions. However, the implementation of these…

Recent experimental advancements in dissipation control have yielded significant insights into non-hermitian Hamiltonians for open quantum systems. Of particular interest are the topological characteristics exhibited by these non-hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Valentin Wilhelm , Hannes Weisbrich , Wolfgang Belzig

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

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 investigate enhanced harmonic generation processes in gain-assisted, near-zero permittivity metamaterials composed of spherical plasmonic nanoshells. We report the presence of narrow-band features in transmission, reflection and…