High harmonic generation in condensed matter

E Goulielmakis, T Brabec - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
When solids are exposed to intense laser fields whose forces are comparable to the binding
forces of valence electrons in crystals, nonlinear optics of solids advances to the …

Ultrafast high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, SRU Haque, S Ghimire - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-harmonic spectroscopy, an ultrafast all-optical technique initially conceptualized in
atomic and molecular systems, has now emerged as a powerful platform for studying the …

Nonlinear photonics with metasurfaces

P Vabishchevich, Y Kivshar - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear optics is a well-established field of research that traditionally relies on the
interaction of light with macroscopic nonlinear media over distances significantly greater …

Propagation induced dephasing in semiconductor high-harmonic generation

I Kilen, M Kolesik, J Hader, JV Moloney, U Huttner… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The influence of propagation on the nonperturbative high-harmonic features in long-
wavelength strong pulse excited semiconductors is studied using a fully microscopic …

High-Order Harmonic Generation and Its Unconventional Scaling Law in the Mott-Insulating

K Uchida, G Mattoni, S Yonezawa, F Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Competition and cooperation among orders is at the heart of many-body physics in strongly
correlated materials and leads to their rich physical properties. It is crucial to investigate …

High harmonic generation in solids: particle and wave perspectives

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas-phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a
new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and angstrom spatial …

Determining the optimum thickness for high harmonic generation from nanoscale thin films: An ab initio computational study

S Yamada, K Yabana - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate high harmonic generation (HHG) from silicon thin films with
thicknesses from a few atomic layers to a few hundreds of nanometers, to determine the …

Crystal symmetry and polarization of high-order harmonics in ZnO

S Jiang, S Gholam-Mirzaei, E Crites… - Journal of Physics B …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We carried out a joint theoretical and experimental study of the polarization of high-order
harmonics generated from ZnO by intense, linearly-polarized, infrared laser pulses …

High-harmonic generation in graphene under the application of a DC electric current: From perturbative to nonperturbative regime

M Kanega, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We theoretically investigate high-harmonic generation (HHG) in honeycomb-lattice
graphene models when subjected to a DC electric field. By integrating the quantum master …

Determination of transition dipole moments of solids with high-order harmonics driven by multicycle ultrashort pulses

D Wu, L Li, Y Zhan, T Huang, H Cui, J Li, P Lan, P Lu - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We propose an all-optical method to reconstruct the transition dipole moment of solid
materials. Our method is realized by high-order harmonic generation driving by a multicycle …