Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to high-order harmonic generation in solids
Abstract
We analytically and numerically investigate the emission of high-order harmonic radiation from model solids by intense few-cycle midinfrared laser pulses. In single-active-electron approximation, we expand the active electron's wave function in a basis of adiabatic Houston states and describe the solid's electronic band structure in terms of an adjustable Kronig-Penney model potential. For high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from MgO crystals, we examine spectra from two-band and converged multiband numerical calculations. We discuss the characteristics of intra- and interband contributions to the HHG spectrum for computations including initial crystal momenta either from the Γ point at the center of the first Brioullin zone (BZ) only or from the entire first BZ. For sufficiently high intensities of the driving laser field, we find relevant contributions to HHG from the entire first BZ. Here, based on numerically calculated spectra, we scrutinize the cutoff harmonic orders as a function of the laser peak intensity and find good qualitative agreement with our analytical saddle-point-approximation predictions and published theoretical data.
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- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
- Inst. of Physics of the ASCR, Prague (Czech Republic)
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- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
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- 1610042
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- OSTI ID: 1560781
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- FG02-86ER13491; DEFG02-86ER13491
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Optics; Physics; Carrier dynamics; Strong electromagnetic field effects; Ultrafast phenomena
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Navarrete, Francisco, Ciappina, Marcelo F., and Thumm, Uwe. Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to high-order harmonic generation in solids. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.100.033405.
Navarrete, Francisco, Ciappina, Marcelo F., & Thumm, Uwe. Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to high-order harmonic generation in solids. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.100.033405
Navarrete, Francisco, Ciappina, Marcelo F., and Thumm, Uwe. Mon .
"Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to high-order harmonic generation in solids". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.100.033405. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1610042.
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title = {Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to high-order harmonic generation in solids},
author = {Navarrete, Francisco and Ciappina, Marcelo F. and Thumm, Uwe},
abstractNote = {We analytically and numerically investigate the emission of high-order harmonic radiation from model solids by intense few-cycle midinfrared laser pulses. In single-active-electron approximation, we expand the active electron's wave function in a basis of adiabatic Houston states and describe the solid's electronic band structure in terms of an adjustable Kronig-Penney model potential. For high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from MgO crystals, we examine spectra from two-band and converged multiband numerical calculations. We discuss the characteristics of intra- and interband contributions to the HHG spectrum for computations including initial crystal momenta either from the Γ point at the center of the first Brioullin zone (BZ) only or from the entire first BZ. For sufficiently high intensities of the driving laser field, we find relevant contributions to HHG from the entire first BZ. Here, based on numerically calculated spectra, we scrutinize the cutoff harmonic orders as a function of the laser peak intensity and find good qualitative agreement with our analytical saddle-point-approximation predictions and published theoretical data.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.100.033405},
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number = 3,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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