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Nonlinear interactions between phonon modes govern the behavior of vibrationally highly excited solids and molecules. Here, we demonstrate theoretically that optical cavities can be used to control the redistribution of energy from a highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-25 Dominik M. Juraschek , Tomáš Neuman , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

Harmonic generation in atoms and molecules has reshaped our understanding of ultrafast phenomena beyond the traditional nonlinear optics and has launched attosecond physics. Harmonics from solids represent a new frontier, where both…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-01 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al, Science…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Hideki Hirori , Yasuyuki Sanari , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Angel Rubio

High-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently emerged as a promising method for generating non-classical states of light with frequencies spanning from the infrared up to the extreme ultraviolet regime. In this work, we theoretically…

Using numerical simulations, we show that atomic high order harmonic generation, HHG, with a circularly polarized laser field offers an ideal framework for quantum-classical correspondence in strong field physics. With an appropriate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk , Adam Kamor , Turgay Uzer , Cristel Chandre

High harmonic generation (HHG) provides a flexible framework for the development of coherent light sources in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft x-ray regimes. However it suffers from low conversion efficiencies as the control of the HHG…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-16 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , E. K. U. Gross

High harmonic generation (HHG) has unleashed the power of strong laser physics in solids. Here we investigate HHG from a large system, solid C$_{60}$, with 240 valence electrons engaging harmonic generation at each crystal momentum, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-23 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear frequency up-conversion process during which extremely short duration optical pulses at very short wavelengths are emitted. A major concern of HHG is the small conversion efficiency at…

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…

When a high power laser beam irradiates a small aperture on a solid foil target, the strong laser field drives surface plasma oscillation at the periphery of this aperture, which acts as a "relativistic oscillating window". The diffracted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Longqing Yi

It is quite important to enhance and control the optomechanically induced high-order sideband generation to achieve low-power optical comb and high-sensitivity sensing with an integratable structure. Here we present and analyze a proposal…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Zeng-Xing Liu , Hao Xiong , Ying Wu

We investigate a two-level atom in the field of a strong laser pulse. The resulting time-dependent polarization is the source of a radiation the frequency components of which are essentially harmonics of the driving field's carrier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Ákos Gombkötő , Attila Czirják , Sándor Varró , Péter Földi

The atomic response to an ultra-intense driving field produces a characteristic high-harmonic spectrum featuring a rapid drop in intensity for the lower harmonics, followed by a plateau and a sharp cutoff. This response vanishes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Lidija Petrovic , Philipp Stammer , Maciej Lewenstein , Javier Rivera-Dean

The generation and control of the properties of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum is fundamental to extend our understanding on the light-matter interaction process. In this letter, we investigate the use of anomalous and…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-11 B. Kumar Das , M. Ciappina , W. Gao , C. Granados

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) results from strong-field laser matter interaction and it is one of the main processes that are used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular targets with…

Symmetries are ubiquitous in physics and play a pivotal role in light-matter interactions, where they determine the selection rules governing allowed atomic transitions and define the associated conserved quantities. For the up-conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Philipp Stammer , Camilo Granados , Javier Rivera-Dean

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful probe of electron dynamics on attosecond to femtosecond timescales and has been successfully used to detect electronic and structural changes in solid-state quantum materials, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel A. Rehn , Towfiq Ahmed , Jinkyoung Yoo , Rohit Prasankumar , Jian-Xin Zhu

Anomalous high-harmonic generation (HHG) arises in certain solids when irradiated by an intense laser field, as the result of a nonlinear perpendicular current akin to a Hall current. Here, we theoretically characterize the anomalous HHG…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Lun Yue , Mette B. Gaarde

Generation of odd harmonics by a super strong focused laser beam in vacuum is considered. The process occurs due to the plural light-by-light scattering effect. In the leading order of perturbation theory, generation of $(2k+1)$th harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny

High-order harmonic generation by a bicircular field, which consists of two coplanar counter-rotating circularly polarized fields of frequency $r\omega$ and $s\omega$ ($r$ and $s$ are integers), is investigated for a polyatomic molecule.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Senad Odžak , Elvedin Hasović , Dejan B. Milošević