High-harmonic generation from solids

S Ghimire, DA Reis - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
High-harmonic generation in atomic gases has been studied for decades, and has formed
the basis of attosecond science. Observation of high-order harmonics from bulk crystals was …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Solid-state harmonics beyond the atomic limit

G Ndabashimiye, S Ghimire, M Wu, DA Browne… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Strong-field laser excitation of solids can produce extremely nonlinear electronic and optical
behaviour. As recently demonstrated, this includes the generation of high harmonics …

Theoretical analysis of high-harmonic generation in solids

G Vampa, CR McDonald, G Orlando, DD Klug… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We investigate theoretically high-harmonic generation (HHG) in bulk crystals exposed to
intense midinfrared lasers with photon energies smaller than the band gap. The two main …

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 …

Controlling dielectrics with the electric field of light

M Schultze, EM Bothschafter, A Sommer, S Holzner… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The control of the electric and optical properties of semiconductors with microwave fields
forms the basis of modern electronics, information processing and optical communications …

High order harmonic generation in solids: a review on recent numerical methods

C Yu, S Jiang, R Lu - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Interaction of intense lasers with solid materials offers an alternative way to achieve high-
order harmonic generation (HHG). Since the underlying mechanisms of the harmonic …

Generation and propagation of high-order harmonics in crystals

S Ghimire, AD DiChiara, E Sistrunk… - Physical Review A …, 2012 - APS
The observation of nonperturbative high-order-harmonic generation in periodic solids has
been interpreted in terms of a two step process comprising tunnel ionization and radiation …

Strong-field and attosecond physics in solids

S Ghimire, G Ndabashimiye, AD DiChiara… - Journal of Physics B …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the status of strong-field and attosecond processes in bulk transparent solids
near the Keldysh tunneling limit. For high enough fields and low-frequency excitations, the …

Multilevel perspective on high-order harmonic generation in solids

M Wu, DA Browne, KJ Schafer, MB Gaarde - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We investigate high-order harmonic generation in a solid, modeled as a multilevel system
dressed by a strong infrared laser field. We show that the cutoff energies and the relative …