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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-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has typically been explored in transparent dielectrics and semiconductors. Metals have long been dismissed due to their strong reflectivity at infrared wavelengths. Here, we demonstrate HHG from…

Squeezed states of the harmonic oscillator are a common resource in applications of quantum technology. If the noise is suppressed in a nonlinear combination of quadrature operators below threshold for all possible up-to-quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Vojtěch Kala , Petr Marek , Radim Filip

Using continuous wave superposition of spatial modes, we demonstrate experimentally displacement measurement of a light beam below the standard quantum limit. Multimode squeezed light is obtained by mixing a vacuum squeezed beam and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Treps , U. Andersen , B. Buchler , P. K. Lam , A. Maitre , H. -A. Bachor , C. Fabre

We describe a six-parameter family of the minimum-uncertainty squeezed states for the harmonic oscillator in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. They are derived by the action of corresponding maximal kinematical invariance group on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey I. Kryuchkov , Sergei K. Suslov , Jose M. Vega-Guzman

The mechanism of harmonic generation in both O and X-mode configurations for a magnetized plasma has been explored here in detail with the help of Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations. A detailed characterization of both the reflected and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Srimanta Maity , Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Laxman Prasad Goswami , Amita Das

Squeezed light are optical beams with variance below the Shot Noise Level. They are a key resource for quantum technologies based on photons, they can be used to achieve better precision measurements, improve security in quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Robert Cernansky , Alberto Politi

We introduce sum-frequency generation (SFG) as an effective physical two-photon detector for high power two-mode squeezed coherent states with arbitrary frequency separation, as produced by parametric oscillators well above the threshold.…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-30 Faina Shikerman , Avi Pe'er

The development of sources delivering non-classical states of light is one of the main needs for applications of optical quantum information science. Here, we demonstrate the generation of non-classical states of light using strong-laser…

We propose a novel squeezed light source capable of meeting the stringent requirements of continuous variable quantum sampling. Using the effective $\chi_2$ interaction induced by a strong driving beam in the presence of the $\chi_3$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Z. Vernon , N. Quesada , M. Liscidini , B. Morrison , M. Menotti , K. Tan , J. E. Sipe

Weak squeezed vacuum light, especially resonant to the atomic transition, plays an important role in quantum storage and generation of various quantum sources. However, the general homodyne detection (HD) cannot determine weak squeezing due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Guanhua Zuo , Yuchi Zhang , Jing Li , Shiyao Zhu , Yanqiang Guo , Tiancai Zhang

High-harmonic generation is one of the most extreme nonlinear-optical processes observed to date. By focusing an intense laser pulse into a gas, the light-atom interaction that occurs during the process of ionising the atoms results in the…

Bosonic modes constitute a central resource in a wide range of quantum technologies, providing long-lived degrees of freedom for the storage, processing, and transduction of quantum information. Such modes naturally arise in platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Zhiyuan Lin , Sen Li , Jingyan Feng , Valentin Ivannikov , Matteo Fadel , Tim Byrnes

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

Preparation of nonclassical light with special quantum properties is essential for quantum technologies. High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a process which not only enables the creation of attosecond pulses but also has the potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ákos Gombkötő , Péter Ádám , David Theidel , Tamás Kiss

We develop a numerical scheme to investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in intense laser-matter interactions. Tracing the time evolution of every electronic laser-field-free state, we "observe" the HHG in a time-integrated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Y. J. Chen , J. Liu , Bambi Hu

We present the generation of high order harmonics in crystalline silicon subjected to intense near-infrared 30fs laser pulse. The harmonic spectrum extends from the near infrared to the extreme ultraviolet spectral region. Depending on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Boyan Obreshkov , Tzveta Apostolova

We report the experimental realization of squeezed quantum states of light, tailored for new applications in quantum communication and metrology. Squeezed states in a broad Fourier frequency band down to 1 Hz has been observed for the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 Henning Vahlbruch , Simon Chelkowski , Karsten Danzmann , Roman Schnabel

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a material sample is irradiated by intense laser pulses, causing the emission of high harmonics of the incident light. HHG has historically been explained by theories employing…

Although it seems that obtaining quantum properties of light from classical calculations is a self-contradictory claim, it is shown here that a unified mechanism governs the three distinct measurements of high harmonic generation spectra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Nimrod Moiseyev