Ultrahigh off‐resonant field effects in semiconductors

U Huttner, M Kira, SW Koch - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The excitation of semiconductors with short, off‐resonant, high‐power terahertz pulses
yields extremely nonlinear, ultrafast, dynamical processes including very‐high harmonic …

Trajectory analysis of high-order-harmonic generation from periodic crystals

T Ikemachi, Y Shinohara, T Sato, J Yumoto… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We theoretically study high-order-harmonic generation (HHG) from solids driven by intense
laser pulses using a one-dimensional model periodic crystal. By numerically solving the time …

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 …

Polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

N Klemke, N Tancogne-Dejean, GM Rossi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is
opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense …

Velocity-gauge real-time TDDFT within a numerical atomic orbital basis set

CD Pemmaraju, FD Vila, JJ Kas, SA Sato… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The interaction of laser fields with solid-state systems can be modeled efficiently within the
velocity-gauge formalism of real-time time dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) …

Numerical pump-probe experiments of laser-excited silicon in nonequilibrium phase

SA Sato, K Yabana, Y Shinohara, T Otobe, GF Bertsch - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We calculate the dielectric response of crystalline silicon following irradiation by a high-
intensity laser pulse, modeling the dynamics by the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations …

Propagation effects in high-harmonic generation from dielectric thin films

S Yamada, T Otobe, D Freeman, A Kheifets, K Yabana - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
A theoretical investigation is conducted of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in silicon
thin films to elucidate the effect of light propagation in reflected and transmitted waves. The …

Role of subcycle transition dynamics in high-order-harmonic generation in periodic structures

PG Hawkins, MY Ivanov - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2013 - APS
In this paper a method is presented for calculating the subcycle rate for transitions of
electrons between two bands of a sinusoidal band structure. A simple closed-form …

Femtosecond time-resolved dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect

T Otobe, Y Shinohara, SA Sato, K Yabana - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We theoretically investigate the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in femtosecond time
resolution, that is, the time-dependent modulation of a dielectric function at around the band …

Ultrafast laser processing of diamond materials: a review

T Apostolova, V Kurylo, I Gnilitskyi - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diamond laser engineering is of great importance for designing devices, which find
applications in radiation sensing and quantum technologies. A review of the present state of …