High-harmonic generation in amorphous solids

Yong Sing You, Yanchun Yin, Yi Wu, Andrew Chew, Xiaoming Ren, Fengjiang Zhuang, Shima Gholam-Mirzaei, Michael Chini, Zenghu Chang and Shambhu Ghimire ()
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Yong Sing You: Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Yanchun Yin: University of Central Florida
Yi Wu: University of Central Florida
Andrew Chew: University of Central Florida
Xiaoming Ren: University of Central Florida
Fengjiang Zhuang: University of Central Florida
Shima Gholam-Mirzaei: University of Central Florida
Michael Chini: University of Central Florida
Zenghu Chang: University of Central Florida
Shambhu Ghimire: Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: 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 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. Our 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.

Date: 2017
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