High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids
Abstract
High-harmonic generation in isolated atoms and molecules has been widely utilized in extreme ultraviolet photonics and attosecond pulse metrology. Recently, high-harmonic generation has been observed in solids, which could lead to important applications such as all-optical methods to image valance charge density and reconstruct electronic band structures, as well as compact extreme ultraviolet light sources. So far these studies are confined to crystalline solids; therefore, decoupling the respective roles of long-range periodicity and high density has been challenging. Here we report the observation of high-harmonic generation from amorphous fused silica. We also decouple the role of long-range periodicity by comparing harmonics generated from fused silica and crystalline quartz, which contain the same atomic constituents but differ in long-range periodicity. These results advance current understanding of the strong-field processes leading to high-harmonic generation in solids with implications for the development of robust and compact extreme ultraviolet light sources.
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst.
- Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States). Inst. for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology, Dept. of Physics
- Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1398969
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; 1506345
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; electronic properties and materials; high-harmonic generation
Citation Formats
You, Yong Sing, Yin, Yanchun, Wu, Yi, Chew, Andrew, Ren, Xiaoming, Zhuang, Fengjiang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Chini, Michael, Chang, Zenghu, and Ghimire, Shambhu. High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4.
You, Yong Sing, Yin, Yanchun, Wu, Yi, Chew, Andrew, Ren, Xiaoming, Zhuang, Fengjiang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Chini, Michael, Chang, Zenghu, & Ghimire, Shambhu. High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4
You, Yong Sing, Yin, Yanchun, Wu, Yi, Chew, Andrew, Ren, Xiaoming, Zhuang, Fengjiang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Chini, Michael, Chang, Zenghu, and Ghimire, Shambhu. Thu .
"High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398969.
@article{osti_1398969,
title = {High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids},
author = {You, Yong Sing and Yin, Yanchun and Wu, Yi and Chew, Andrew and Ren, Xiaoming and Zhuang, Fengjiang and Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima and Chini, Michael and Chang, Zenghu and Ghimire, Shambhu},
abstractNote = {High-harmonic generation in isolated atoms and molecules has been widely utilized in extreme ultraviolet photonics and attosecond pulse metrology. Recently, high-harmonic generation has been observed in solids, which could lead to important applications such as all-optical methods to image valance charge density and reconstruct electronic band structures, as well as compact extreme ultraviolet light sources. So far these studies are confined to crystalline solids; therefore, decoupling the respective roles of long-range periodicity and high density has been challenging. Here we report the observation of high-harmonic generation from amorphous fused silica. We also decouple the role of long-range periodicity by comparing harmonics generated from fused silica and crystalline quartz, which contain the same atomic constituents but differ in long-range periodicity. These results advance current understanding of the strong-field processes leading to high-harmonic generation in solids with implications for the development of robust and compact extreme ultraviolet light sources.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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