High-order harmonics and supercontinua formed by a weak optical pump in the presence of an extreme terahertz field

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer013115
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review A
Jahrgang106
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 28 Juli 2022

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We show that in the presence of an extreme terahertz (THz) field an additional weak field in the optical frequency range can modulate ionization probability and thereby generate high-order harmonics. The extreme THz pump suppresses recollisions, thereby also fully suppressing the recollision-based harmonics. Nevertheless, high-order harmonics are effectively generated via an alternative mechanism, the so-called Brunel mechanism, based on ionization and subsequent acceleration in the driving field (but not on reabsorption). Using ab initio simulations for the hydrogen atom and short few-cycle optical driver, we show the appearance of a coherent carrier-envelope-phase-insensitive supercontinuum formed by such harmonics, compressible into an isolated pulse with 100-attosecond-scale duration.

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High-order harmonics and supercontinua formed by a weak optical pump in the presence of an extreme terahertz field. / Babushkin, I.; Demircan, A.; Morgner, U. et al.
in: Physical Review A, Jahrgang 106, Nr. 1, 013115, 28.07.2022.

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Babushkin I, Demircan A, Morgner U, Savel'Ev A. High-order harmonics and supercontinua formed by a weak optical pump in the presence of an extreme terahertz field. Physical Review A. 2022 Jul 28;106(1):013115. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2105.04627, 10.1103/PhysRevA.106.013115
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