Optimal Control of High-Harmonic Generation

Quantum Optimal Control of High-Harmonic Generation from Molecular Systems

Every scale needs right tools and devices to enable researchers to study and even control phenomena in that area. Given the fact that many fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics and chemistry, such as chemical bonding or charge transfer, are happening on attosecond scale has encouraged researchers to look for essential tools for inspecting this region. At the present time, high-harmo...

Generation and control of high-harmonic radiation

Control of laser high-harmonic generation with counterpropagating light.

Relatively weak counterpropagating light is shown to disrupt the emission of laser high-harmonic generation. Harmonic orders ranging from the teens to the low thirties produced by a 30-femtosecond pulse in a narrow argon jet are "shut down" with a contrast as high as 2 orders of magnitude by a chirped 1-picosecond counterpropagating laser pulse (60 times less intense). Alternatively, under poor...

Broadband Spectral Amplitude Control in High-Order Harmonic Generation

A technique for broadband spectral amplitude control of light pulses produced in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is presented. It has been shown elsewhere that broadband spectral phase control in HHG is achievable using a computerized feedback loop scheme by coherently adding a filtered region of the HHG emission to the intense IR driving pulse with optimal attenuation and time delay param...

Optimal Estimation of Harmonic Components Using ISFLA

In this paper a novel method based on evolutionary algorithms is presented to estimate the harmonic components. In general, the optimization of the harmonic estimation process is a multi-component problem, in which evaluation of the phase and harmonic frequency is the nonlinear part of the problem and is solved based on the mathematical and evolutionary methods; while estimation of amplitude of...