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We theoretically investigate the spectral caustics of high-order harmonics in solids. We analyze the 1-dimension model of solids HHG and find that, apart from the caustics originated from the van Hove singularities in the energy-band structure, another kind of catastrophe singularities also emerge when the different branches of electron-hole trajectories generating high-order harmonics coalesce into a single branch. We solve time-dependent Schrodinger equation in periodic potential and demonstrate the control of this kind of singularities in HHG with the aids of two-color laser fields. The diffraction patterns of the harmonic spectrum near the caustics agree well with the inter-band electron-hole recombination trajectories predicted by the semiconductor semi-classical equation. This work is expected to help to understand the HHG dynamics in solids and manipulate the harmonic spectrum by adjusting driving field parameters.
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High harmonic generation (HHG) in crystals has revealed a wealth of perspectives such as all-optical mapping of the electronic band structure, ultrafast quantum information and the creation of novel all-solid-state attosecond sources. Significant efforts have been made to understand the microscopic aspects of HHG in crystals, whereas the macroscopic effects, such as non-linear propagation effects of the driving pulse inside the dense solid media and its impact on the HHG process is often overlooked. In this work, we study macroscopic effects by comparing two materials with distinct optical properties, silicon (Si) and zinc oxide (ZnO). By scanning the focal position of 85 fs, 2.123 $mu$m wavelength pulses inside the crystals (Z-scan) we reveal spectral shifts in the generated harmonics. We interpret the overall blueshift of the emitted harmonic spectrum as an imprint of the driving field spectral modulation occurring during the propagation inside the crystal. This is supported with numerical simulations. This study demonstrates that through manipulation of the fundamental driving field through non-linear propagation effects, precise control of the emitted HHG spectrum in solids can be realised. This method could offer a robust way to tailor HHG spectra for a range of spectroscopic applications.
The interaction of strong near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses with wide-bandgap dielectrics produces high harmonics in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) wavelength range. These observations have opened up the possibility of attosecond metrology in solids, which would benefit from a precise measurement of the emission times of individual harmonics with respect to the NIR laser field. Here we show that, when high-harmonics are detected from the input surface of a magnesium oxide crystal, a bichromatic probing of the XUV emission shows a clear synchronization largely consistent with a semiclassical model of electron-hole recollisions in bulk solids. On the other hand, the bichromatic spectrogram of harmonics originating from the exit surface of the 200 $mu$m-thick crystal is strongly modified, indicating the influence of laser field distortions during propagation. Our tracking of sub-cycle electron and hole re-collisions at XUV energies is relevant to the development of solid-state sources of attosecond pulses.
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Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo (Department of Telecommunicationn Engineering
, Mahanakorn University of Technology
, Bangkok
2008
We report results of a systematic analysis of spatial solitons in the model of 1D photonic crystals, built as a periodic lattice of waveguiding channels, of width D, separated by empty channels of width L-D. The system is characterized by its structural duty cycle, DC = D/L. In the case of the self-defocusing (SDF) intrinsic nonlinearity in the channels, one can predict new effects caused by competition between the linear trapping potential and the effective nonlinear repulsive one. Several species of solitons are found in the first two finite bandgaps of the SDF model, as well as a family of fundamental solitons in the semi-infinite gap of the system with the self-focusing nonlinearity. At moderate values of DC (such as 0.50), both fundamental and higher-order solitons populating the second bandgap of the SDF model suffer destabilization with the increase of the total power. Passing the destabilization point, the solitons assume a flat-top shape, while the shape of unstable solitons gets inverted, with local maxima appearing in empty layers. In the model with narrow channels (around DC =0.25), fundamental and higher-order solitons exist only in the first finite bandgap, where they are stable, despite the fact that they also feature the inverted shape.
Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in semiconductor crystals. HHG from solids could be a valuable approach for integrated high-flux short-wavelength coherent light sources. The solid state nature of the generation medium allows the possibility to tailor directly the radiation at the source of the emission and offers a substantial degree of freedom for spatial beam shaping. First, we verify the fundamental principle of the transfer and conservation of the OAM from the generation laser to the harmonics. Second, we create OAM beams by etching a spiral zone structure directly at the surface of a zinc oxide crystal. Such diffractive optics act on the generated harmonics and produces focused optical vortices with nanometer scale sizes that may have potential applications in nanoscale optical trapping and quantum manipulation.
Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric complex potentials can exhibit a phase transition when the degree of non-Hermiticity is increased. Two eigenstates coalesce at a transition point, which is known as the exceptional point (EP) for a discrete spectrum and spectral singularity for a continuous spectrum. The existence of an EP is known to give rise to a great variety of novel behaviors in various fields of physics. In this work, we study the complex band structures of one-dimensional photonic crystals with PT symmetric complex potentials by setting up a Hamiltonian using the Bloch states of the photonic crystal without loss or gain as a basis. As a function of the degree of non-Hermiticity, two types of PT symmetry transitions are found. One is that a PT-broken phase can re-enter into a PT-exact phase at a higher degree of non-Hermiticity. The other is that two spectral singularities, one originating from the Brillouin zone center and the other from the Brillouin zone boundary, can coalesce at some k-point in the interior of the Brillouin zone and create a singularity of higher order. Furthermore, we can induce a band inversion by tuning the filling ratio of the photonic crystal, and we find that the geometric phases of the bands before and after the inversion are independent of the amount of non-Hermiticity as long as the PT-exact phase is not broken. The standard concept of topological transition can hence be extended to non-Hermitian systems.
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