High-order harmonic generation by atoms in a few-cycle laser pulse: Carrier-envelope phase and many-electron effects

Journal Article · Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.021405· OSTI ID:21537097

Frolov, M V; Manakov, N L ^[1]; Silaev, A A; Vvedenskii, N V ^[2]; Starace, Anthony F ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, Voronezh State University, Voronezh RU-394006 (Russian Federation)
2. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod RU-603950 (Russian Federation)
3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299 (United States)

Analytic formulas describing high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by atoms in a short laser pulse are obtained quantum mechanically in the tunneling limit. These results provide analytic expressions of the three-step HHG scenario, as well as of the returning electron wave packet, in a few-cycle pulse. Our results agree well with those of numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for the H atom, while for Xe they predict many-electron atomic dynamics features in few-cycle HHG spectra and significant dependence of these features on the carrier-envelope phase of a laser pulse.

• OSTI ID: 21537097
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.021405; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
SPECTRA
TIME DEPENDENCE
TUNNEL EFFECT
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DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
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FREQUENCY MIXING
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MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
RADIATIONS
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