High-harmonic generation in solids from a high-energy fiber laser system
We demonstrate high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids using a high-energy fiber laser system operating at 1550 nm. The driving few-cycle source consists of an erbium-doped fiber chirped pulse amplifier combined with a post-compression stage featuring a gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). The nonlinear self-compression process in the HC-PCF enables the generation of ultrashort pulses with sub-50 fs durations and μJ-level energies at a 660 kHz repetition rate. Perturbative and non-perturbative harmonics were subsequently generated when focusing the few-cycle pulses into zinc oxide (ZnO) and magnesium oxide (MgO) bulk samples. In the latter, in particular, we observed the generation of extreme ultraviolet harmonics up to H29 (below 55 nm), highlighting the remarkable potential of such a platform for the development of compact HHG sources.
Authors
- L. Guiramand
- Saïd Idlahcen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-8614)
- D. Gauthier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2711-695X)
- Frédéric Gérôme (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9213-2876)
- Jonathan Houard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7244-205X)
- Thomas Godin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7209-0979)
- Ivan Blum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-6510)
- Ammar Hideur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-7032)
- Willem Boutu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1137-5724)
- Djamila Boukhaoui
- Angela Vella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-159X)
- H. Merdji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3512-3855)
- Anastasiia Mikhneva
- F. Benabid
- Foued Amrani
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- École Polytechnique (FR)
- École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (FR)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- SdPhotonics (United States) (US)
- XLIM (FR)
- Complexe de Recherche Interprofessionnel en Aérothermochimie (FR)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (FR)
- CY Cergy Paris Université (FR)
- Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (FR)
- Université de Rouen Normandie (FR)
- Université de Limoges (FR)
- Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Rouen Normandie (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- APL Photonics
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244415
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.49
Funders
- European Commission
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- HORIZON EUROPE European Innovation Council