Dynamical origin of near- and below-threshold harmonic generation of Cs in an intense mid-infrared laser field
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2015Author
Li, Peng-Cheng
Sheu, Yae-Lin
Laughlin, Cecil
Chu, Shih-I
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Nature Publishing Group
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Near- and below-threshold harmonic generation provides a potential approach to generate vacuum-ultraviolet frequency comb. However, the dynamical origin of in these lower harmonics is less understood and largely unexplored. Here we perform an ab initio quantum study of the near- and below-threshold harmonic generation of caesium (Cs) atoms in an intense 3,600-nm mid-infrared laser field. Combining with a synchrosqueezing transform of the quantum time-frequency spectrum and an extended semiclassical analysis, the roles of multiphoton and multiple rescattering trajectories on the near- and below-threshold harmonic generation processes are clarified. We find that the multiphoton-dominated trajectories only involve the electrons scattered off the higher part of the combined atom-field potential followed by the absorption of many photons in near- and below-threshold regime. Furthermore, only the near-resonant below-threshold harmonic is exclusive to exhibit phase locked features. Our results shed light on the dynamic origin of the near- and below-threshold harmonic generation.
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Li P-C, Sheu Y-L, Laughlin C, Chu S-I. Dynamical origin of near- and below-threshold harmonic generation of Cs in an intense mid-infrared laser field. Nature Communications. 2015;6:7178.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8178.
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