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High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned acetylene molecules interacting with mid infra-red (IR), linearly polarized laser pulses is studied theoretically using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Peter Mulholland , Daniel Dundas

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

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

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coherent sources below 120nm are of paramount significance for promoting next-generation nano-scale lithography,precision spectroscopy, and exploring the emerging physical phenomena in quantum materials. Nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Yanling Cheng , Bin Zhang , Fei Liang , Haohai Yu , Huaijin Zhang

The strong-field process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) has, in recent years, been treated from a quantum optical perspective in the emerging research area of strong-field quantum optics. These investigations show that HHG radiation is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Lars Bojer Madsen

High-harmonic generation (HHG) from a compact, solid-state medium is highly desirable for applications such as coherent attosecond pulse generation and extreme ultra-violet (EUV) spectroscopy, yet the typically weak conversion of pump light…

For decades, most research on high harmonic generation (HHG) considered matter as quantum but light as classical, leaving the quantum-optical nature of the harmonics an open question. Here we explore the quantum properties of high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Matan Even Tzur , Michael Birk , Alexey Gorlach , Ido Kaminer , Michael Krueger , Oren Cohen

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…

We present the first theoretical results on the generation of short-wavelength attosecond vortex beams in semiconductors through their interactions with an intense Laguerre-Gauss beam, in the limit where non-perturbative high-order…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , Christian Heide , Shambhu Ghimire , M. F. Ciappina

In this manuscript, we propose the generation of complex vector beams with high quality and stability based on a novel approach that relies on the combination of two techniques that seem incompatible at first glance. The first is Complex…

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extremely nonlinear effect, where a medium is driven by a strong laser field, generating coherent broadband radiation with photon energies ranging up to the X-ray and pulse durations reaching attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-20 Alexey Gorlach , Ofer Neufeld , Nicholas Rivera , Oren Cohen , Ido Kaminer

High-order harmonics generation (HHG) is the only process that enables table-top-size sources of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) light. The HHG process typically involves light interactions with gases or plasma-material phases that hinder wider…

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

We present theoretical predictions of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the interaction of short femtosecond laser pulses with metal nanotips. It has been demonstrated that high energy electrons can be generated using…

Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) sources with a controllable polarization state are powerful tools for investigating the structural and electronic as well as the magnetic properties of materials. However, such light sources are still…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Zi-Yu Chen , Alexander Pukhov

High power orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) beam has dominant advantages in capacity increasing and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distance. Utilizing coherent combination of beam array technique and…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dong Zhi , Yanxing Ma , Pu Zhou , Rumao Tao , Xiaolin Wang , Lei Si , Zejin Liu

Optical modulation of high-harmonics generation in solids enables the detection of material properties such as the band structure and promising new applications such as super-resolution imaging in semiconductors. Various recent studies have…

The discovery of topological phases has introduced a new dimension to materials science. Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are a remarkable class of matter that is insulating in the bulk while hosting conductive…

We investigated the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) process of diatomic molecular ion $\mathrm{H}_2^+$ in non-Born-Oppenheimer approximations. The corresponding three-dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is solved with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Mu-Zi Li , Guang-Rui Jia , Xue-Bin Bian

In the past two decades high-harmonic generation (HHG) has become a key process in ultra-fast science due to the extremely short time-structure of the underlying electron dynamics being imprinted in the emitted harmonic light bursts. After…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 Markus C. Kohler , Thomas Pfeifer , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel