Generation of ultrashort pulses of harmonics

Details Generation of ultrashort pulses of harmonics Generation of ultrashort pulses of harmonics

Sep 1996

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Physical Review A, vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 1761-1764

Physics

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Multiphoton Ionization And Excitation To Highly Excited States, Frequency Conversion, Harmonic Generation, Including Higher-Order Harmonic Generation

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We study harmonic generation by a single atom exposed to two short perpendicularly polarized laser pulses. The two perpendicular electric fields oscillate at two different frequencies ω1 and ω2. Hence, the resultant field has a polarization which depends on time. Since harmonics are emitted when the resultant oscillating field is linearly polarized, it is expected that a short pulse of harmonics may be emitted if the external field is linearly polarized during a short period of time. We show that, indeed, the atom may emit an ultrashort pulse of a given harmonic. This result has been obtained by time-frequency analyzing the acceleration of the induced dipole moment with a filter whose frequency bandwidth is smaller than twice the frequency of the external field. Our calculation of the dipole acceleration is based on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We then address the question of how far it is possible to reduce the duration of the emitted pulse of one given harmonic by adjusting both ω1 and ω2 and keeping the amplitude of this pulse significant. In order to answer to this question, we used the quantum version of the two-step model [M. Lewenstein et al.,

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2117 (1994)

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