Polarization Dependent Excitation and High Harmonic Generation from Intense Mid-IR Laser Pulses in ZnO
Abstract
The generation of high order harmonics from femtosecond mid-IR laser pulses in ZnO has shown great potential to reveal new insight into the ultrafast electron dynamics on a few femtosecond timescale. In this work we report on the experimental investigation of photoluminescence and high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a ZnO single crystal and polycrystalline thin film irradiated with intense femtosecond mid-IR laser pulses. The ellipticity dependence of the HHG process is experimentally studied up to the 17th harmonic order for various driving laser wavelengths in the spectral range 3–4 µm. Interband Zener tunneling is found to exhibit a significant excitation efficiency drop for circularly polarized strong-field pump pulses. For higher harmonics with energies larger than the bandgap, the measured ellipticity dependence can be quantitatively described by numerical simulations based on the density matrix equations. The ellipticity dependence of the below and above ZnO band gap harmonics as a function of the laser wavelength provides an efficient method for distinguishing the dominant HHG mechanism for different harmonic orders.
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- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Quantum Electronics; Helmholtz Inst. Jena (Germany)
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Quantum Electronics
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. for Solid State Physics
- Technical Univ. of Vienna (Austria). Inst. for Photonics
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Quantum Electronics; Fritz Haber Inst., Berlin (Germany); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. for Solid State Physics; Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Abbe Center of Photonics
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Quantum Electronics; Helmholtz Inst. Jena (Germany); Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Abbe Center of Photonics
- Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Quantum Electronics; Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany). Abbe Center of Photonics
- Publication Date:
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG); Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Helmholtz-Institute Jena; Max Planck Society; Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1815960
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 57427209
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nanomaterials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2079-4991
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; high harmonic generation (HHG); ZnO; thin film; ellipticity dependence; tunneling excitation
Citation Formats
Hollinger, Richard, Herrmann, Paul, Korolev, Viacheslav, Zapf, Maximilian, Shumakova, Valentina, Röder, Robert, Uschmann, Ingo, Pugžlys, Audrius, Baltuška, Andrius, Zürch, Michael, Ronning, Carsten, Spielmann, Christian, and Kartashov, Daniil. Polarization Dependent Excitation and High Harmonic Generation from Intense Mid-IR Laser Pulses in ZnO. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.3390/nano11010004.
Hollinger, Richard, Herrmann, Paul, Korolev, Viacheslav, Zapf, Maximilian, Shumakova, Valentina, Röder, Robert, Uschmann, Ingo, Pugžlys, Audrius, Baltuška, Andrius, Zürch, Michael, Ronning, Carsten, Spielmann, Christian, & Kartashov, Daniil. Polarization Dependent Excitation and High Harmonic Generation from Intense Mid-IR Laser Pulses in ZnO. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010004
Hollinger, Richard, Herrmann, Paul, Korolev, Viacheslav, Zapf, Maximilian, Shumakova, Valentina, Röder, Robert, Uschmann, Ingo, Pugžlys, Audrius, Baltuška, Andrius, Zürch, Michael, Ronning, Carsten, Spielmann, Christian, and Kartashov, Daniil. Tue .
"Polarization Dependent Excitation and High Harmonic Generation from Intense Mid-IR Laser Pulses in ZnO". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1815960.
@article{osti_1815960,
title = {Polarization Dependent Excitation and High Harmonic Generation from Intense Mid-IR Laser Pulses in ZnO},
author = {Hollinger, Richard and Herrmann, Paul and Korolev, Viacheslav and Zapf, Maximilian and Shumakova, Valentina and Röder, Robert and Uschmann, Ingo and Pugžlys, Audrius and Baltuška, Andrius and Zürch, Michael and Ronning, Carsten and Spielmann, Christian and Kartashov, Daniil},
abstractNote = {The generation of high order harmonics from femtosecond mid-IR laser pulses in ZnO has shown great potential to reveal new insight into the ultrafast electron dynamics on a few femtosecond timescale. In this work we report on the experimental investigation of photoluminescence and high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a ZnO single crystal and polycrystalline thin film irradiated with intense femtosecond mid-IR laser pulses. The ellipticity dependence of the HHG process is experimentally studied up to the 17th harmonic order for various driving laser wavelengths in the spectral range 3–4 µm. Interband Zener tunneling is found to exhibit a significant excitation efficiency drop for circularly polarized strong-field pump pulses. For higher harmonics with energies larger than the bandgap, the measured ellipticity dependence can be quantitatively described by numerical simulations based on the density matrix equations. The ellipticity dependence of the below and above ZnO band gap harmonics as a function of the laser wavelength provides an efficient method for distinguishing the dominant HHG mechanism for different harmonic orders.},
doi = {10.3390/nano11010004},
journal = {Nanomaterials},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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