High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids

You, Yong Sing; Yin, Yanchun; Wu, Yi; Chew, Andrew; Ren, Xiaoming; Zhuang, Fengjiang; Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima; Chini, Michael; Chang, Zenghu; Ghimire, Shambhu

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4

Title: High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids

Journal Article · Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00989-4· OSTI ID:1398969

You, Yong Sing ^[1]; Yin, Yanchun ^[2]; Wu, Yi ^[2]; Chew, Andrew ^[2]; Ren, Xiaoming ^[2]; Zhuang, Fengjiang ^[3]; Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima ^[3]; Chini, Michael ^[3]; Chang, Zenghu ^[2]; Ghimire, Shambhu ^[1]

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

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.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; 1506345

OSTI ID:: 1398969

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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