Nonlinear THz radiation investigated by quantum simulations.

Terahertz (THz) waves can be generated by the nonlinear interaction between ultrashort laser pulses and air. The semiclassical photocurrent model is widely used. It is simple, but neglects the quantum effects.

High-order harmonic generation from 2D periodic potentials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields.

We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic potentials. Contrary to the absence of HHG in the atomic case, circular HHGs below the bandgap with different helicities are produced from intraband transitions in solids with symmetry driven by circularly polarized lasers. Harmonics above the bandgap are elliptically polarized due to the interband transitions.

Nonadiabatic redshifts in high-order harmonic generation from solids.

We studied the multi-plateau high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solids numerically. It is found that the HHG spectra in the second and higher plateaus are redshifted in short laser pulses due to the nonadiabatic effect. The corresponding FWHMs also increase as a function of the harmonic order, suggesting the step-by-step excitation of higher conduction bands in the HHG process.

Alignment dependent ultrafast electron-nuclear dynamics in molecular high-order harmonic generation.

We investigated the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) process of diatomic molecular ion H in non-Born-Oppenheimer approximations (NBOA). The corresponding three-dimensional time-dependent Schrödinger equation is solved with arbitrary alignment angles. It is found that the nuclear motion can lead to spectral modulation of HHG in both the tunneling and multiphoton ionization regimes.

[A primary study of 8-14 microm band emittance].

According to the previous experimental results, the band emittance of two materials were computed for 8-14 mm bandwidth in infrared measuring. The band emittance of several materials was surveyed by a simple experiment. The experiment and reckoning show that there is some kind of functional relation between band emittance and temperature.