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Amplify high harmonic generation via anharmonic phonons in PbTe.
Optics Express
|August 13, 2025
Summary
Phonons significantly enhance high-harmonic generation (HHG) efficiency and intensity by breaking symmetry in materials like PbTe. This breakthrough also enables magnetization, advancing attosecond science and nonlinear optics.
Area of Science:
- Nonlinear optics
- Attosecond science
- Condensed matter physics
Background:
- High-harmonic generation (HHG) offers attosecond temporal resolution for studying electron dynamics.
- Current HHG control methods face limitations in efficiency and radiation strength.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the use of phonons for efficient and flexible manipulation of HHG.
- To investigate the impact of phonon modes on HHG intensity and explore emergent phenomena.
Main Methods:
- Employing phonons (transverse optical, transverse acoustic, longitudinal optical) in HHG experiments.
- Utilizing a broad range of wavelengths and elliptically polarized light.
- Investigating symmetry breaking induced by phonon modes in PbTe.
Main Results:
- Symmetry breaking by transverse optical (TO) and transverse acoustic (TA) phonons dramatically enhances HHG intensity in PbTe.
- Emergence of magnetization observed due to noncentrosymmetric states induced by TO and longitudinal optical (LO) phonons.
Conclusions:
- Phonon manipulation offers a powerful strategy for efficient and flexible control of HHG.
- The findings open new avenues for perturbative and nonperturbative nonlinear optics.
- This work significantly contributes to the advancement of attosecond science and solid-state physics.
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