Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Interband resonant high-harmonic generation by valley polarized electron–hole pairs

  • Naotaka Yoshikawa,
  • Kohei Nagai,
  • Kento Uchida,
  • Yuhei Takaguchi,
  • Shogo Sasaki,
  • Yasumitsu Miyata,
  • Koichiro Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11697-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Monolayer materials have tunable electronic structures that may be useful for optical applications. Here the authors show even and odd high-harmonic generation up to 15th order from a variety of monolayers with different band properties and emphasize the role of nonlinear interband polarization.