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 …

Colloquium: Strong-field phenomena in periodic systems

SY Kruchinin, F Krausz, VS Yakovlev - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
The advent of visible-infrared laser pulses carrying a substantial fraction of their energy in a
single field oscillation cycle has opened a new era in the experimental investigation of …

Measurement of the Berry curvature of solids using high-harmonic spectroscopy

TT Luu, HJ Wörner - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Berry phase and Berry curvature have become ubiquitous concepts in physics, relevant to a
variety of phenomena, such as polarization, various Hall effects, etc. Studies of these …

Coherent control of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet transient absorption

P Peng, Y Mi, M Lytova, M Britton, X Ding… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption is the process by which atoms and
molecules absorb light on a timescale faster than the lifetime of the states involved …

Ultimate waveform reproducibility of extreme-ultraviolet pulses by high-harmonic generation in quartz

M Garg, HY Kim, E Goulielmakis - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Optical waveforms of light reproducible with subcycle precision underlie applications of
lasers in ultrafast spectroscopies, quantum control of matter and light-based signal …

Observation of refractive index line shape in ultrafast XUV transient absorption spectroscopy

M Sun, Z Jiang, Y Fu, Y Jiang, H Hu, C Bai, Z Yue… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption spectroscopy measures the time-and
frequency-dependent light losses after light–matter interactions. In the linear region, the …

Attosecond metrology in circular polarization

M Han, JB Ji, K Ueda, HJ Wörner - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Attosecond metrology with linearly polarized light pulses is the basis of a highly successful
research area. An even broader impact can be expected from a generalized metrology that …

Supercontinuum amplification by Kerr instability

S Ghosh, NG Drouillard, TJ Hammond - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The versatility of optical parametric amplifiers makes them excellent sources for ultrashort
visible and infrared pulses that drive strong-field physics experiments. We extend four-wave …

Observing broken inversion symmetry in solids using two-color high-order harmonic spectroscopy

TT Luu, HJ Wörner - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We experimentally investigate the manifestations of broken inversion symmetry in solids in
two-color interferometric measurements. Polarization-resolved, high-order harmonic spectra …

Quantum path interferences and selection in interband solid high-order harmonic generation in MgO crystals

TJ Shao, LJ Lü, JQ Liu, XB Bian - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We theoretically investigate the quantum path interferences in interband transitions in solid
high-order harmonic generation. The field strength scaling of the 19th harmonic yield from …