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Polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense lightwaves to precisely control the fast carrier dynamics in crystals holds great promise for next-generation petahertz elect...

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Autores principales: Klemke, N., Tancogne-Dejean, N., Rossi, G. M., Yang, Y., Scheiba, F., Mainz, R. E., Di Sciacca, G., Rubio, A., Kärtner, F. X., Mücke, O. D.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6428929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09328-1
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author Klemke, N.
Tancogne-Dejean, N.
Rossi, G. M.
Yang, Y.
Scheiba, F.
Mainz, R. E.
Di Sciacca, G.
Rubio, A.
Kärtner, F. X.
Mücke, O. D.
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Tancogne-Dejean, N.
Rossi, G. M.
Yang, Y.
Scheiba, F.
Mainz, R. E.
Di Sciacca, G.
Rubio, A.
Kärtner, F. X.
Mücke, O. D.
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description Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense lightwaves to precisely control the fast carrier dynamics in crystals holds great promise for next-generation petahertz electronics and devices. The carrier dynamics can produce high-order harmonics of the driving field extending up into the extreme-ultraviolet region. Here, we introduce polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids, which provides deeper insights into both electronic and structural sub-cycle dynamics. Performing high-harmonic generation measurements from silicon and quartz, we demonstrate that the polarization states of the harmonics are not only determined by crystal symmetries, but can be dynamically controlled, as a consequence of the intertwined interband and intraband electronic dynamics. We exploit this symmetry-dynamics duality to efficiently generate coherent circularly polarized harmonics from elliptically polarized pulses. Our experimental results are supported by ab-initio simulations, providing evidence for the microscopic origin of the phenomenon.
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spelling pubmed-64289292019-03-25 Polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids Klemke, N. Tancogne-Dejean, N. Rossi, G. M. Yang, Y. Scheiba, F. Mainz, R. E. Di Sciacca, G. Rubio, A. Kärtner, F. X. Mücke, O. D. Nat Commun Article Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense lightwaves to precisely control the fast carrier dynamics in crystals holds great promise for next-generation petahertz electronics and devices. The carrier dynamics can produce high-order harmonics of the driving field extending up into the extreme-ultraviolet region. Here, we introduce polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids, which provides deeper insights into both electronic and structural sub-cycle dynamics. Performing high-harmonic generation measurements from silicon and quartz, we demonstrate that the polarization states of the harmonics are not only determined by crystal symmetries, but can be dynamically controlled, as a consequence of the intertwined interband and intraband electronic dynamics. We exploit this symmetry-dynamics duality to efficiently generate coherent circularly polarized harmonics from elliptically polarized pulses. Our experimental results are supported by ab-initio simulations, providing evidence for the microscopic origin of the phenomenon. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6428929/ /pubmed/30899026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09328-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Rubio, A.
Kärtner, F. X.
Mücke, O. D.
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