Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Ellipticity dependence of high-harmonic generation in solids originating from coupled intraband and interband dynamics

  • Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean,
  • Oliver D. Mücke,
  • Franz X. Kärtner,
  • Angel Rubio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00764-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The mechanisms of high-order harmonic generation in bulk system and dilute gas are different. Here the authors use first-principle methods to explore the ellipticity dependence and control of the HHG in periodic solids by involving the interband and intraband dynamics in Si and MgO.