High-harmonic generation by relativistic Thomson scattering

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Umstadter ◽  
S. Banerjee ◽  
F. He ◽  
Y.Y. Lau ◽  
R. Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Thomson Scattering

scholarly journals Artificial Generation of High Harmonics via Nonrelativistic Thomson Scattering in Metamaterial

Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzheng Wen ◽  
Ji Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
Ultrafast Optics ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Thomson Scattering ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Relativistic Velocity ◽  
Electromagnetic Process ◽  
Anharmonic Oscillation ◽  
High Harmonics

High harmonic generation allows one to extend the frequency of laser to a much broader regime and to study the electron dynamics of matters. However, severely limited by the vague high-order process in natural material and the unfriendly state of the commonly applied gas and plasma media, the ambitious goal of custom-design high harmonics remains exceptionally challenging. Here, we demonstrate that high harmonics can be artificially designed and tailored based on a metamaterial route. With the localized reconstruction of magnetic field in a metamaterial, the nonlinear Thomson scattering, a ubiquitous electromagnetic process which people used to believe that it only occurs with the relativistic velocity, can be stimulated in a nonrelativistic limit, which drives anharmonic oscillation of free electrons and generates high harmonics. An explicit physical model and the numerical simulations perfectly demonstrate the artificial generation and tailoring of the high harmonics. This novel mechanism is entirely dominated by the artificial structure instead of the natural nonlinear compositions. It not only provides unprecedented design freedom to the high harmonic generation but breaks the rigorous prerequisite of the relativistic velocity of the nonlinear Thomson scattering process, which offers fascinating possibilities to the development of new light source and ultrafast optics, and opens up exciting opportunities for the advanced understanding of electrodynamics in condensed matters.

High-harmonic generation in plasmas by relativistic Thomson scattering

2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (14-15) ◽  
pp. 2599-2614 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Banerjee ◽  
A. R. Valenzuela ◽  
R.C. Shah ◽  
A. Maksimchuk ◽  
D. Umstadter
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Thomson Scattering

scholarly journals Artificial Generation of High Harmonics via Nonrelativistic Thomson Scattering in Metamaterial

Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzheng Wen ◽  
Ji Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
Ultrafast Optics ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Thomson Scattering ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Relativistic Velocity ◽  
Electromagnetic Process ◽  
Anharmonic Oscillation ◽  
High Harmonics

High harmonic generation allows one to extend the frequency of laser to a much broader regime and to study the electron dynamics of matters. However, severely limited by the vague high-order process in natural material and the unfriendly state of the commonly applied gas and plasma media, the ambitious goal of custom-design high harmonics remains exceptionally challenging. Here, we demonstrate that high harmonics can be artificially designed and tailored based on a metamaterial route. With the localized reconstruction of magnetic field in a metamaterial, the nonlinear Thomson scattering, a ubiquitous electromagnetic process which people used to believe that it only occurs with the relativistic velocity, can be stimulated in a nonrelativistic limit, which drives anharmonic oscillation of free electrons and generates high harmonics. An explicit physical model and the numerical simulations perfectly demonstrate the artificial generation and tailoring of the high harmonics. This novel mechanism is entirely dominated by the artificial structure instead of the natural nonlinear compositions. It not only provides unprecedented design freedom to the high harmonic generation but breaks the rigorous prerequisite of the relativistic velocity of the nonlinear Thomson scattering process, which offers fascinating possibilities to the development of new light source and ultrafast optics, and opens up exciting opportunities for the advanced understanding of electrodynamics in condensed matters.

scholarly journals High-harmonic generation in one-dimensional Mott insulators

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Murakami ◽  
Shintaro Takayoshi ◽  
Akihisa Koga ◽  
Philipp Werner
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Mott Insulators ◽  
One Dimensional

scholarly journals Few-Cycle Infrared Pulse Evolving in FEL Oscillators and Its Application to High-Harmonic Generation for Attosecond Ultraviolet and X-ray Pulses

Atoms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Ryoichi Hajima
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Generation ◽  
Short Pulse ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Harmonic Generation ◽  
Pulse Generation ◽  
Solid State Lasers ◽  
Linear Accelerators ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Ultrafast Science ◽  
Historical Remarks

Generation of few-cycle optical pulses in free-electron laser (FEL) oscillators has been experimentally demonstrated in FEL facilities based on normal-conducting and superconducting linear accelerators. Analytical and numerical studies have revealed that the few-cycle FEL lasing can be explained in the frame of superradiance, cooperative emission from self-bunched systems. In the present paper, we review historical remarks of superradiance FEL experiments in short-pulse FEL oscillators with emphasis on the few-cycle pulse generation and discuss the application of the few-cycle FEL pulses to the scheme of FEL-HHG, utilization of infrared FEL pulses to drive high-harmonic generation (HHG) from gas and solid targets. The FEL-HHG enables one to explore ultrafast science with attosecond ultraviolet and X-ray pulses with a MHz repetition rate, which is difficult with HHG driven by solid-state lasers. A research program has been launched to develop technologies for the FEL-HHG and to conduct a proof-of-concept experiment of FEL-HHG.

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