Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 53, Issue 6, 0653201(2024)
Anomalous Ellipticity Dependence of High Harmonic Generation in Dirac Materials (Invited)
High Harmonic Generation (HHG) in solids often carries the microstructure information of crystal materials, and is a practical means to detect the electronic properties and dynamics in crystals. The anomalous dependence of solid HHG on the ellipticity of driving laser has received much attention. As is well known, gas HHG is produced by the recollision of electron with parent nucleus, the recollision probability decreases greatly with the increase of ellipticity, so the harmonic intensity driven by linearly polarized light is always larger than that driven by elliptically polarized light. A large number of experiments and theories have shown that the anomalous ellipticity dependence appears in the HHG from graphene and surface states of topological insulators with Dirac-cone structure, which is different from the gas HHG. YOSHIKAWA N et al. think that the ellipticity dependence of HHG in graphene is determined by the comparison of bandgap and Rabi frequency. However, in Bi2Se3, a topological insulator with a similar Dirac cone on two-dimensional surface state, BAYKUSHEVA D et al. believe that the mechanism of its anomalous ellipticity dependence is different from that of graphene. Topological insulators require strong Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) as a prerequisite, however, the SOC in graphene is weak. They conclude that the anomalous ellipticity associated with band topology is dependent on the strong SOC and protection of time-reversal symmetry. Therefore, both Dirac cone and SOC effect have influence on the harmonic ellipticity dependence, and there may be competition between them, thus the mechanism of the anomalous ellipticity dependence of Dirac system remains unclear.In this paper, the HHG of the graphene and surface states of topological insulators under different laser ellipticities is simulated by solving semiconductor Bloch equations. The anomalous ellipticity dependence of HHG from graphene and surface state of topological insulator is theoretically verified. We investigate the microscopic dynamics of the electron transition near the Dirac cone under different laser ellipticities and the transient changes of the harmonic radiation in
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Chen QIAN, Ruifeng LU. Anomalous Ellipticity Dependence of High Harmonic Generation in Dirac Materials (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2024, 53(6): 0653201
Category: Special Issue for Ultrafast Optics
Received: Apr. 15, 2024
Accepted: May. 20, 2024
Published Online: Jul. 16, 2024
The Author Email: Ruifeng LU (rflu@njust.edu.cn)