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Generation of circularly-polarized high-harmonics with the same helicity to all orders is indispensable for chiral-sensitive spectroscopy with attosecond temporal resolution. Solid-state samples have added a valuable asset in controlling…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Navdeep Rana , M. S. Mrudul , Gopal Dixit

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of…

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids driven by laser fields with different ellipticities. The HHG spectra show a two-plateau structure within the energy gap between the valence band and the first conduction band.…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-01 Liang Li , Pengfei Lan , Xiaosong Zhu , Tengfei Huang , Peixiang Lu

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids could enable attosecond and ultraviolet light sources with high compactness, great controllability and rich functions. However, the HHG process is accompanied by a quite large wavevector mismatch…

Although solid-state platforms underpin modern electronics, little is known about how intense ultrashort light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact with solids. This gap persists even though, for more conventional…

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

High-harmonic generation (HHG), a typical nonlinear optical effect, has been actively studied in electron systems such as semiconductors and superconductors. As a natural extension, we theoretically study HHG from electric polarization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-10 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Masahiro Sato

An accurate analytic model describing high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids is derived. Extensive first-principles simulations within a time-dependent density-functional framework corroborate the conclusions of the model. Our results…

Employing non-Hermitian Floquet theory, the strong-field process of high harmonic (HH) generation by a classical continuous-wave field irradiating ground-state atom is discovered to be controllable by placing the irradiated atom inside a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Zohar Amitay , Nimrod Moiseyev

The strong ellipticity dependence of high-harmonic generation in gases enables numerous experimental techniques that are nowadays routinely used, for instance, to create isolated attosecond pulses. Extending such techniques to high-harmonic…

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

The generation of high-order harmonics in bulk solids subjected to intense ultrashort laser pulses has opened up new avenues for research in extreme nonlinear optics and light-matter interaction on sub-cycle timescales. Despite significant…

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned molecules in strong elliptically polarized laser fields numerically and analytically. Our simulations show that the spectra and polarization of HHG depend strongly on the molecular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 F. J. Sun , C. Chen , W. Y. Li , X. Liu , W. Li , Y. J. Chen

Recent advancements in the generation of mid-infrared and terahertz laser pulses have enabled us to observe strong-field driven non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors, dielectrics, and semimetals. HHG has added…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-22 M. S. Mrudul

High-harmonic generation (HHG) of a two-level-system driven by an intense monochromatic phase-locked laser is studied in terms of complex spectral analysis with the Floquet method. In contrast to the phenomenological approaches, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hidemasa Yamane , Ken-ichi Noba , Tomio Petrosky , Satoshi Tanaka

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is a fundamental process which can be simplified as the production of high energetic photons from a material subjected to a strong driving laser field. This highly nonlinear optical process contains rich…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-21 Dasol Kim , Yeon Lee , Alexis Chacón , Dong Eon Kim

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful tool for probing electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics in matter. Traditionally studied in atomic and molecular gases, HHG has recently been extended to condensed matter, enabling…

We investigate the polarization properties of high harmonics generated with the bichromatic counterrotating circularly polarized (BCCP) laser fields by numerically solving time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE). It is found that, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Xiaofan Zhang , Liang Li , Xiaosong Zhu , Xi Liu , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

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