authors:
Sambit Mitra, Shubhadeep Biswas, Johannes Schötz, Emilio Pisanty, Benjamin Förg, Gautam Aditya Kavuri, Christian Burger, William Okell, Maximilian Högner, Ioachim Pupeza, Vladimir Pervak, Maciej Lewenstein, Pawel Wnuk and Matthias F Kling
publication date:
2020-06-05
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abstract:

This work investigates the suppression of individual harmonics, simultaneously affecting specific even and odd orders in the high-harmonic spectra generated by strongly tailored, two-colour, multi-cycle laser pulses in neon. The resulting spectra are systematically studied as a function of the electric-field shape in a symmetry-broken (ω-2ω) and symmetry-preserved (ω-3ω) configuration. The peak suppression is reproduced by macroscopic strong-field approximation calculations and is found to be unique to symmetry-broken fields (ω-2ω). Additionally, semi-classical calculations further corroborate the observation and reveal their underlying mechanism, where a nontrivial spectral interference between subsequent asymmetric half-cycles is found to be responsible for the suppression.

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