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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

Generation of high intensity attopulses is investigated in cylindrical geometry by using 3D particle-in-cell plasma simulation code. Due to the rotation symmetric target, a circularly polarized laser pulse is considered propagating on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Zsolt Lécz , Alexander Andreev

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is widely used for up-conversion of amplified (near) infrared ultrafast laser pulses to short wavelengths. We demonstrate that Ramsey-comb spectroscopy, based on two such pulses derived from a frequency-comb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 L. S. Dreissen , C. Roth , E. L. Gründeman , J. J. Krauth , M. Favier , K. S. E. Eikema

High-order harmonic generation driven by intense extreme ultraviolet (EUV) fields merges quantum optics and attosecond science, giving rise to an appealing route for the generation of coherent EUV and soft X-ray light for high-resolution…

High harmonic generation (HHG) takes place in all phases of matter. In gaseous atomic and molecular media, it has been extensively studied and is very well-understood. In solids research is ongoing, but a consensus is forming for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ofer Neufeld , Zahra Nourbakhsh , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a versatile platform for exploring ultrafast and quantum-coherent phenomena in condensed matter. Recent advances reveal Berry-phase and topological effects in harmonic emission,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Marcelo F. Ciappina

We report measurements and theoretical simulations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in aligned N$_2$ molecules using a 1200-nm intense laser field when the generating pulse is perpendicular to the aligning one. With increasing laser…

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 results from an interplay between intraband acceleration and electron-hole recombination driven by a high-intensity laser pulse. Here, we theoretically reveal that the driving pulse duration can play…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-06 Alba de las Heras , Ofer Neufeld , Angel Rubio

Attosecond pulses, produced through high-order harmonic generation in gases, have been successfully used for observing ultrafast, sub-femtosecond electron dynamics in atoms, molecules and solid state systems. Today's typical attosecond…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in two-dimensional materials offers a compelling route toward compact extreme ultraviolet sources and probing electron dynamics on the attosecond scale. However, achieving precise control over the emission and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhenjiang Zhao , Zhihua Zheng , Zhiyi Xu , Xing Ran , Xiaolong Yao , Fangping Ouyang

High harmonic generation (HHG) enables coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation with ultra-short pulse duration in a table-top setup. This has already enabled a plethora of applications. Nearly all of these applications would benefit…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-07 R. Klas , A. Kirsche , M. Gebhardt , J. Buldt , H. Stark , S. Hädrich , J. Rothhardt , J. Limpert

Various schemes are presented for the generation of circularly polarized molecular high-order harmonic generation (MHOHG) from molecules. In particular it is shown that combinations of counter-rotating circularly polarized pulses produce…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-15 Andre D. Bandrauk , Kai-Jun Yuan

High harmonic generation (HHG) is used to measure the spectral phase of the recombination dipole matrix element (RDM) in argon over a broad frequency range that includes the 3p Cooper minimum (CM). The measured RDM phase agrees well with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. B. Schoun , R. Chirla , J. Wheeler , C. Roedig , P. Agostini , L. F. DiMauro , K. J. Schafer , M. B. Gaarde

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…

We demonstrate unexpectedly strong second harmonic generation (SHG) in Argon gas by use of spatiotemporally focused (SF) femtosecond laser pulses. The resulting SHG by the SF scheme at a 75 cm distance shows a significantly enhanced…

We studied a novel family of paraxial laser beams forming an overcomplete yet nonorthogonal set of modes. These modes have a singular phase profile and are eigenfunctions of the photon orbital angular momentum. The intensity profile is…

Plasma high harmonics generation from an extremely intense short-pulse laser is explored by including the effects of ion motion, electron-ion collisions and radiation reaction force in the plasma dynamics. The laser radiation pressure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Suo Tang , Naveen Kumar , Christoph H. Keitel

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) with relativistically strong laser pulses is considered employing electron ionization-recollisions from multiply charged ions in counterpropagating, linearly polarized attosecond pulse trains. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Markus C. Kohler , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Vector beam, with a spatial nonuniform polarization distribution, is important for many applications due to its unique field characteristics and novel effects when interacting with matter. Here through three-dimensional particle-in-cell…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-22 Zi-Yu Chen , Ronghao Hu