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High-order harmonic generation (HHG) provides a broad spectral bandwidth for synthesizing attosecond pulses. However, in the current HHG schemes, only part of the harmonics can be phase-locked, which limits the ability to achieve shorter…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-18 ShiJun Wang , XuanYang Lai , XiaoJun Liu

The optical phase of the driving field in the process of high harmonic generation and the coherence properties of the harmonics are fundamental concepts in attosecond physics. Here, we consider to drive the process by incoherent classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Philipp Stammer

Using time-dependent density functional theory, high-harmonic generation (HHG) is studied in one-dimensional structures of sizes from a single nucleus up to hundreds of nuclei. The HHG cutoff is observed to extent linearly with the system…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Kenneth K. Hansen , Dieter Bauer , Lars Bojer Madsen

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated for H$_2^+$ and its isotopomers under seven- and ten-cycle trapezoidal laser pulses at 800 nm wavelength and $I$=4$\times 10^{14}$ W$/$cm$^2$ intensity. We solved numerically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 H. Ahmadi , M. Vafaee , A. Maghari

We propose a novel picture of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids based on the concept of temporally changing band structures. To demonstrate the utility of this picture, we focus on the high-order sideband generation (HSG) caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Tomohiro Tamaya , Takeo Kato

Solids in an intense laser field show high-harmonic generation (HHG), which can provide information on carrier dynamics and band structures in weakly correlated systems. In strongly correlated systems, a laser field can induce a transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Ryohei Ikeda , Yuta Murakami , Daiki Sakai , Tatsuya Miyamoto , Toshimitsu Ito , Hiroshi Okamoto

High harmonic generation (HHG) from condensed matter phase holds promise to promote future cutting-edge research in the emerging field of attosecond nanoscopy. The key for the progress of the field relies on the capability of the existing…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Hicham Agueny

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has entered a new phase of intensive research, with envisioned band-structure mapping on an ultrashort time scale. This partly benefits from a flurry of new HHG materials discovered, but so far…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 G. P. Zhang , M. S. Si , M. Murakami , Y. H. Bai , Thomas F. George

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

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in…

High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hamlet K. Avetissian , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Andreas Knorr

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…

A new High Harmonic Generation (HHG) scheme, which doesn't rely on Tunnel-Ionization as the ionization mechanism but rather on Single-Photon Ionization, is theoretically proposed and numerically demonstrated. The scheme uses two driver…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Jonathan Berkheim , Eliyahu Bordo , Eldar Ragonis , Lev Merensky , Avner Fleischer

The Quantitative Rescattering Theory (QRS) for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by intense laser pulses is presented. According to the QRS, HHG spectra can be expressed as a product of a returning electron wave packet and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Anh-Thu Le , R. R. Lucchese , S. Tonzani , T. Morishita , C. D. Lin

High-harmonic generation by a highly non-linear interaction of infrared laser fields with matter allows for the generation of attosecond pulses in the XUV spectral regime. This process, well established for atoms, has been recently extended…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) enables the up-conversion of intense infrared or visible femtosecond laser pulses into extreme-ultraviolet attosecond pulses. However, the highly nonlinear nature of the process results in low conversion…

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 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

We develop a general theory of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state systems, based on a weak-correlation expansion of photonic and matter degrees of freedom. Unlike standard HHG theories, which treat light-matter dynamics through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Denis Ilin , Alexander S. Solntsev , Ivan Iorsh

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from crystals offers a new source of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond radiation.