scholarly journals High-Order Harmonic Generation in Au Nanoparticle-Contained Plasmas

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mottamchetty Venkatesh ◽  
Rashid A. Ganeev ◽  
Dmitry S. Ivanov ◽  
Ganjaboy S. Boltaev ◽  
Vyacheslav V. Kim ◽  
...  

Gold nanoparticles (NPs) have a wide range of applications in various fields. Here, we present high-order nonlinear optical studies of the plasmas produced from ablation of Au bulk targets and Au NP films deposited on paper and glass substrates. Experimentally, we analyze high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from gold NPs-containing plasmas. The HHG is produced by 35-fs pulses at 800 and 400 nm, while the plasmas are produced by femtosecond (35 fs, 800 nm), picosecond (200 ps, 800 nm), and nanosecond (5 ns, 1064 nm) pulses, respectively. High-order harmonics produced from ablated Au NPs on paper were 40 times stronger than the HHG from that ablated from the Au bulk targets. Through molecular dynamic simulations, we investigate the formation of gold NPs during laser ablation of a metal surface under different conditions.

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 1130002 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. AUGSTEIN ◽  
C. FIGUEIRA DE MORISSON FARIA

We present a summarizing account of a series of investigations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in diatomic molecules beyond the single-active electron and single-active orbital approximation. In these investigations, we include not only the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), but also the lower lying orbitals and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) in modified versions of the strong-field approximation. We employ perturbation theory around the HOMO, multielectron wavefunctions and initial coherent superpositions of the HOMO and LUMO. The imprints of multiple orbitals, nodal structures and two-center interference on the HHG spectra are investigated in detail, for homonuclear and heteronuclear molecules. We find that, in many situations, different molecular orbitals can be traced back to different energy regions in the spectra. Furthermore, imprints of nodal structures in heteronuclear molecules can be understood by analyzing nodal planes in isoelectronic homonuclear molecules. This opens up a wide range of possibilities for molecular imaging applications.


2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 375-386
Author(s):  
D. B. MilosÕeviĆ ◽  
W. Becker

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 585-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-G. Wahlström ◽  
S. Borgström ◽  
J. Larsson ◽  
S.-G. Pettersson

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