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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

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

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

This paper introduces Bohmian mechanics (BM) into the intense laser-atom physics to study high-order harmonic generation. In BM, the trajectories of atomic electrons in intense laser field can be obtained with the Bohm-Newton equation. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 X. Y. Lai , Q. Y. Cai , M. S. Zhan

High harmonic generation by relativistically intense laser pulses from overdense plasma layers is surveyed. High harmonics are generated in form of (sub-)attosecond pulses when the plasma surface rebounds towards the observer with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Daniel an der Brügge , Alexander Pukhov

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…

High order harmonic (HOH) generation by interacting extremely intense electromagnetic waves in the quantum vacuum is investigated within the framework of the Heisenberg-Euler formalism. We consider here the process in the lowest order of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Pavel Sasorov , Sergei Bulanov

We investigate high-order harmonic generation in a solid, modeled as a multi-level system dressed by a strong infrared laser field. We show that the cutoff energies and the relative strengths of the multiple plateaus that emerge in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Mengxi Wu , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

We theoretically study high-harmonic generation (HHG) from solids driven by intense laser pulses using a one-dimensional model periodic crystal. By numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation directly on a real-space…

We consider several aspects of high-order harmonic generation in solids: the effects of elastic and inelastic scattering; varying pulse characteristics; and inclusion of material-specific parameters through a realistic band structure. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-07 A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

We present a generic approach for treating the effect of nuclear motion in the high-order harmonic generation from polyatomic molecules. Our procedure relies on a separation of nuclear and electron dynamics where we account for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 C. B. Madsen , M. Abu-samha , L. B. Madsen

We derive a simple theory for high-order harmonic generation due to pumping a noninteracting metal with a large amplitude oscillating electric field. The model assumes that the radiated light field arises from the acceleration of electrons…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-12 J. K. Freericks , A. Y. Liu , A. F. Kemper , T. P. Devereaux

High-harmonic generation (HHG) normally requires a careful adjustment of the driving laser intensity (typically $10^{14} - 10^{15}$ W/cm$^2$) and gas medium parameters to enable good phase matching conditions. In contrast with conventional…

We consider a quantum mechanical model for the high-order harmonic generation in bulk solids. The bandgap is assumed to be considerably larger than the exciting photon energy. Using dipole approximation, the dynamical equations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Viktor Szaszkó-Bogár , Katalin Varjú , Péter Földi

We identify and explore a high orbital angular momentum (OAM) harmonics generation and amplification mechanism that manipulates the OAM independently of any other laser property, by preserving the initial laser wavelength, through…

We study the generation of high harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model transparent solid driven by a strong mid-infrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) using a velocity-gauge…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mengxi Wu , Shambhu Ghimire , David A. Reis , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

Accurate molecular imaging via high-order harmonic generation relies on comparing the harmonic emission from a molecule and an adequate reference system. However, an ideal reference atom with the same ionization properties as the molecule…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elmar V. van der Zwan , Manfred Lein

This paper focuses on investigating high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under intense near-infrared laser fields. To model the GQD and its interaction with the laser field, we utilize a mean-field approach.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , Kh. V. Sedrakian , G. F. Mkrtchian

High harmonic generation traditionally combines ~100 near-infrared laser photons, to generate bright, phase matched, extreme ultraviolet beams when the emission from many atoms adds constructively. Here we show that by guiding a…

When molecules interact with intense light sources of femtosecond or shorter duration the rotational degrees of freedom are frozen during the response to the strong nonperturbative interaction. We show how the frozen degrees of freedom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-09-25 C. B. Madsen , A. S. Mouritzen , T. K. Kjeldsen , L. B. Madsen