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We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids driven by laser fields with different ellipticities. The HHG spectra show a two-plateau structure within the energy gap between the valence band and the first conduction band.…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-01 Liang Li , Pengfei Lan , Xiaosong Zhu , Tengfei Huang , Peixiang Lu

We present a quantum optical generalization of the quantum-matter Lewenstein model of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in gases that contains two channels corresponding to the inter- and intraband HHG in solids. Both channels can be presented…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Adam Thorpe , Neda Boroumand , Graeme Bart , Lu Wang , Giulio Vampa , Thomas Brabec

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…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in the two topological phases of a finite, one-dimensional, periodic structure is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) approach. For harmonic photon energies…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-26 Dieter Bauer , Kenneth K. Hansen

We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is combined with resonant x-ray excitation of a core electron into the transient valence vacancy that is created in the course of the HHG process. To describe this setting, I develop a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Christian Buth

Accelerating and colliding particles has been a key strategy to explore the texture of matter. Strong lightwaves can control and recollide electronic wavepackets, generating high-harmonic (HH) radiation which encodes the structure and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 M. Hohenleutner , F. Langer , O. Schubert , M. Knorr , U. Huttner , S. W. Koch , M. Kira , R. Huber

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

We study high order harmonics generation (HHG) in crystalline silicon and diamond subjected to near and mid-infrared laser pulses. We employ time-dependent density functional theory and solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 David Freeman , Shunsuke Yamada , Atsushi Yamada , Kazuhiro Yabana , Anatoli Kheifets

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear process where intense pulses of light drive matter to emit high harmonics of the driving frequency, reaching the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray spectral ranges. So far, the HHG…

The solid-state harmonic generation (SSHG) derives from photocurrent coherence. The crystal symmetry, including point-group symmetry and time-reversal symmetry, constrains the amplitude and phase of the photocurrent, thus manipulates the…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chen Qian , Shicheng Jiang , Tong Wu , Hongming Weng , Chao Yu , Ruifeng Lu

We demonstrate that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids dominantly originates from strongly localized surface states through non-perturbative processes. Measurements reveal that HHG from bulk states is suppressed by at least 1-2 orders…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Seres , E. Seres , C. Serrat , T. Schumm

High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and Angstrom spatial resolution are accessible. The fundamental physical pictures of HHG…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Liang Li , Pengfei Lan , Xiaosong Zhu , Peixiang Lu

High harmonic generation (HHG) from crystals in strong laser fields has been understood by the band theory of solid, which is based on the periodic boundary condition (PBC) of translational invariant. For systems having PBC of rotational…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Yigeng Peng , Tong Wu , Guanglu Yuan , Lihan Chi , Chao Yu , Ruifeng Lu

We theoretically study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solid-phase systems in spatially inhomogeneous strong laser fields originated by resonant plasmons within a metallic nanostructure. The intensity of the second plateau in HHG…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

We studied the multi-plateau high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solids numerically. It is found that the HHG spectrum in the second or higher plateau is redshifted in short laser pulses due to the nonadiabatic effect. The…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Guang-Rui Jia , Xue-Bin Bian

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in crystalline solids have been examined so far on the basis of one-body energy-band structures arising from electron itineracy in a periodic potential. Here, we show emergence of HHG signals which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Shohei Imai , Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

The spectra produced by high-harmonic generation (HHG) typically exhibit well-defined peaks at odd integers times the laser frequency. However, in recent investigations of HHG from correlated materials, spectra exhibit signals at noninteger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Thomas Hansen , Lars Bojer Madsen

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in isolated atoms and molecules has been widely utilized in extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photonics and attosecond pulse metrology. Recently, HHG has also been observed in solids, which could lead to…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) provides a powerful optical tool for probing ultrafast dynamics on the attosecond timescale. While its mechanisms in gases and solids are well-established, understanding nonlinear optical responses in…