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We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneities of the local electric field and the confinement of the electron motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , Srdjan S. Acimovic , T. Shaaran , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

We study second-harmonic generation (SHG) arising from surface nonlinearity at a metal-dielectric interface using a spectral decomposition method. Since our method avoids the need to consider the generalized boundary condition across the…

We study surface second-harmonic generation (SHG) from a singular plasmonic structure consisting of touching metallic wires. We use the technique of transformation optics and relate the structure to a rather simpler geometry, a slab…

Nonlinear optical phenomena in nanostructured materials have been challenging our perceptions of nonlinear optical processes that have been explored since the invention of lasers. For example, the ability to control optical field…

We calculate high-harmonic generation (HHG) by intense infrared lasers in atoms and molecules with the inclusion of macroscopic propagation of the harmonics in the gas medium. We show that the observed experimental spectra can be accurately…

Planar germanium heterostructures hosting hole-spin qubits are among the leading platforms for scalable semiconductor-based quantum computing. Yet, device performance is hindered by significant quantum dot variability, which leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aram Shojaei , Edmondo Valvo , Maximilian Rimbach-Russ , Eliska Greplova , Ana Silva

Attosecond light sources based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) constitute to date the only table-top solution for producing coherent broadband radiation covering the spectral range from the extreme ultraviolet to the soft X-rays.…

The cut-off regime of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by atoms in an intense laser field is studied numerically and analytically. We find that the cut-off regime is characterized by equal dephasing between the successive harmonics. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 M. A. Khokhlova , V. V. Strelkov

The interface between two different semiconductors is crucial in determining the electronic properties at the heterojunction, therefore novel techniques that can probe these regions are of particular interest. Recently it has been shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Frederico B. Sousa , Lucas Lafeta , Alisson R. Cadore , Prasana K. Sahoo , Leandro M. Malard

We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By adjusting the laser intensity and focusing position, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Lixin He , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Chunyang Zhai , Feng Wang , Wenjing Shi , Peixiang Lu

The problem of determination of the maximum of second harmonic generation in the potential well containing a rectangular barrier is considered. It is shown that, in general, the problem of finding the ensemble of structures with equidistant…

Second harmonic generation (SHG) extensively employs periodically poled nonlinear crystals through forward quasi-phase-matching to achieve efficient frequency conversion. As poling periods approach sub-micrometers, backward…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-15 Fengyan Yang , Juanjuan Lu , Mohan Shen , Guangcanlan Yang , Hong X. Tang

Silicon photonics lacks a second-order nonlinear optical response in general because the typical constituent materials are centro-symmetric and lack inversion symmetry, which prohibits second-order nonlinear processes such as second…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Xiyuan Lu , Gregory Moille , Ashutosh Rao , Daron Westly , Kartik Srinivasan

In this paper we will show a general method of how to make an optimized parameter design of a circular e+e- Higgs Factory by using analytical expression of maximum beam-beam parameter and beamstrahlung beam lifetime started from given…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Dou Wang , Jie Gao , Ming Xiao , Huiping Geng , Yuanyuan Guo , Shouyan Xu , Na Wang , Yuwen An , Qing Qin , Gang Xu , Sheng Wang

We demonstrate a simple and scalable approach to increase conversion efficiencies of nonlinear metasurfaces by incorporating them into multipass cells and by letting the pump beam to interact with the metasurfaces multiple times. We…

LMTO calculations are presented for the frequency dependent second harmonic generation (SHG) in the polytypes 2H, 4H, 6H, 15R and 3C of SiC. All independent tensor components are calculated. The spectral features and the ratios of the 333…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergey N. Rashkeev , Walter R. L. Lambrecht , Benjamin Segall

We predict and experimentally observe the enhancement by three orders of magnitude of phase mismatched second and third harmonic generation in a GaAs cavity at 650nm and 433nm, respectively, well above the absorption edge. Phase locking…

By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the extended Hubbard model on a periodic chain, HHG close to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-07 Can Shao , Hantao Lu , Xiao Zhang , Chao Yu , Takami Tohyama , Ruifeng Lu

Electrical tuning of second-order nonlinearity in optical materials is attractive to strengthen and expand the functionalities of nonlinear optical technologies, though its implementation remains elusive. Here, we report the electrically…

We demonstrate phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) from three-dimensional metamaterials consisting of stacked metasurfaces. To achieve phase matching, we utilize a novel mechanism based on phase engineering of the metasurfaces at…