Analytic scaling analysis of high harmonic generation conversion efficiency

Closed form expressions for the high harmonic generation (HHG) conversion efficiency are obtained for the plateau and cutoff regions. The presented formulas eliminate most of the computational complexity related to HHG simulations, and enable a detailed scaling analysis of HHG efficiency as a functi...

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Main Authors: Falcao-Filho, Edilson L., Gkortsas, Vasileios-Marios, Kaertner, Franz X., Gordon, Ariel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49436
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555
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Summary:Closed form expressions for the high harmonic generation (HHG) conversion efficiency are obtained for the plateau and cutoff regions. The presented formulas eliminate most of the computational complexity related to HHG simulations, and enable a detailed scaling analysis of HHG efficiency as a function of drive laser parameters and material properties. Moreover, in the total absence of any fitting procedure, the results show excellent agreement with experimental data reported in the literature. Thus, this paper opens new pathways for the global optimization problem of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) sources based on HHG.