High-harmonic generation in solids from a high-energy fiber laser system

D. Boukhaoui; A. Mikhneva; S. Idlahcen; J. Houard; T. Godin; L. Guiramand; I. Blum; F. Amrani; F. Gérôme; F. Benabid; D. Gauthier; W. Boutu; H. Merdji; A. Vella; A. Hideur

doi:10.1063/5.0244415

High-harmonic generation in solids from a high-energy fiber laser system

D. Boukhaoui
, A. Mikhneva
, S. Idlahcen
, J. Houard
, T. Godin
, L. Guiramand
, I. Blum
, F. Amrani
, F. Gérôme
, F. Benabid
, D. Gauthier
, W. Boutu
, H. Merdji
, A. Vella
, A. Hideur

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	026106
Journal	APL Photonics
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244415
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2025

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