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High-order harmonic generation at high laser intensities beyond the tunnel regime

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We present studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) at laser intensities well above saturation. We use driving laser pulses which present a particular electron dynamics in the turn-on stage. Our results predict an increasing on the harmonic yield, after an initial dropping, when the laser intensity is increased. This fact contradicts the general belief of a progressive degradation of the harmonic emission at ultrahigh intensities. We have identified a particular set of trajectories which emerges in the turn-on stage of these singular laser pulses, responsible of the unexpected growth on the harmonic efficiency at this high intensity regime. Our study combines two complementary approaches: classical analysis and full quantum mechanical calculations resulting from the numerical integration of the 3-dimensional time-dependent Schrödinger equation complemented with the time-frequency analysis.

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  1. Marcelo F. Ciappina

    Present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

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  1. Centro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Parque Científico, 37185, Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain

    Jose Antonio Pérez-Hernández & Luis Roso

  2. Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 36849, USA

    Marcelo F. Ciappina

  3. ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, 08860, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain

    Maciej Lewenstein

  4. ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Lluis Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain

    Maciej Lewenstein

  5. Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Amelle Zaïr

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “X-ray Generation from Ultrafast Lasers”, edited by Germán J. de Valcárcel, Luis Roso and Amelle Zaïr.

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Pérez-Hernández, J.A., Ciappina, M.F., Lewenstein, M. et al. High-order harmonic generation at high laser intensities beyond the tunnel regime. Eur. Phys. J. D 68, 195 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-50086-6

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