High-Order Harmonic Generation in Solids

"High-order harmonics emerging from the interaction of strong laser fields with solid matter constitute a novel, highly sensitive tool for interrogating electronic structure and dynamics in solids. At the interface of attosecond physics and condensed matter physics, this book provides an excellent overview of the current state of the art."

"This is a timely book with many chapters on the important topic of high harmonic generation and ultrafast phenomena in solids. The chapter authors are all excellent researchers."

"High-order harmonic generation in solids has been a very hot topic in strong-field physics because of its attractive applications for obtaining high-intensity table-top coherent lights and generating intense attosecond pulses. Many important progresses have been achieved both in experiments and theories especially for uncovering the mechanism of high-order harmonic generation from solids in the last decade. This book will give very good summaries and outlooks for this hot topic in time. Graduate students and young scientists can benefit a lot from this important book."

"Prof. Ciappina's book on solid-state higher-harmonic generation is a valuable repository on the most important current developments in the field. By bringing together the expertise from top researchers in the field, including both theorists and experimentalists, it provides a comprehensive overview of key topics such as ultrafast and strong-field optics, non-linear optics and petahertz electronics. Moreover, the book is written with experimentalists in mind, which makes it more useful than other works that are mostly focused on the formalism."

"This book provides a first collection of various aspects of one of the advanced topics of nonlinear optics — formation and analysis of the conditions for efficient generation of the harmonics in solid materials. It covers interesting topics such as interference effects, HHG in 2D structures, anisotropy of this process in solids, nanoscale integration of high-harmonic sources, plasmonic-driven solid HHG, and other aspects of this actively developing field. The well-known authors of the chapters of this collection cover various areas of HHG in solids. This book will be useful for researchers working in the field of high-order harmonics generation by different methods, as well as for students preparing to study nonlinear optical processes in materials."

Dr Marcelo Ciappina is Associate Professor at the Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, China. He is also Guest Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, and Associate Editor of Ultrafast Science, a Science partner journal. He has co-authored over 250 journal papers with an H-index of 34. He is regarded as an expert in theory and numerical simulations of nonlinear laser interactions with atoms, molecules and complex systems. In recent years he has been one of the pioneers in a novel and fascinating field that merges two relatively new areas of research: attosecond and nanoscale physics.

Dr Paraskevas Tzallas is Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IESL-FORTH), Greece. He has co-authored over 150 journal papers with an H-index of 34. His research achievements include the first direct observation of attosecond light bursts emitted from gas and solid state media, the first observation of atomic direct double ionization by harmonic superposition, generation of intense continuum XUV radiation by multi-cycle laser fields, among others.

Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword
Chapter 1: Probing Topological Phase Transition Using High-order Harmonic Generation