Abstract
Because the commonly adopted viewpoint that the Keldysh parameter determines the dynamical regime in strong field physics has long been demonstrated to be misleading, one can ask what happens as relevant physical parameters, such as laser intensity and frequency, are varied while is kept fixed. We present results from our one- and fully three-dimensional quantum simulations of high-order-harmonic generation (HHG) from various bound states of hydrogen with up to 40, where the laser intensities and the frequencies are scaled from those for in order to maintain a fixed Keldysh parameter for all . We find that as we increase while keeping fixed, the position of the cutoff scales in a well-defined manner. Moreover, a secondary plateau forms with a new cutoff, splitting the HHG plateau into two regions. The first of these subplateaus is composed of lower harmonics, and has a higher yield than the second one. The latter extends up to the semiclassical cutoff. We find that this structure is universal, and the HHG spectra look the same for all when plotted as a function of the scaled harmonic order. We investigate the , , and momentum distributions to elucidate the physical mechanism leading to this universal structure.
1 More- Received 23 August 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.043417
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