All-optical control of high-order harmonic generation in correlated systems

Yang Wang; Jingsong Gao; Yu Liu; Pengzuo Jiang; Jingying Xiao; Zhuoyan Zhou; Hong Yang; Guowei Lu; Liang-You Peng; Yunquan Liu; Qihuang Gong; Chengyin Wu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.534159

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 12, 2831(2024)

All-optical control of high-order harmonic generation in correlated systems

Yang Wang¹, Jingsong Gao¹, Yu Liu¹, Pengzuo Jiang¹, Jingying Xiao¹, Zhuoyan Zhou¹, Hong Yang^1,2,3,4, Guowei Lu^1,2,3,4, Liang-You Peng^1,2,3,4, Yunquan Liu^1,2,3,4, Qihuang Gong^1,2,3,4, and Chengyin Wu^1,2,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, China

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Jun. 27, 2024

Accepted: Sep. 27, 2024

Published Online: Nov. 27, 2024

The Author Email: Chengyin Wu (cywu@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.534159

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.534159

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