Interference of harmonics emitted by different tunneling momentum channels in laser fields

Abstract

Abstract By numerically solving the semiconductor Bloch equation (SBEs), we theoretically study the high-harmonic generation of ZnO crystals driven by one-color and two-color intense laser pulses. The results show the enhancement of harmonics and the cut-off remains the same in the two-color field, which can be explained by the recollision trajectories and electron excitation from multi-channels. Based on the quantum path analysis, we investigate contribution of different ranges of the crystal momentum k of ZnO to the harmonic yield, and find that in two-color laser fields, the intensity of the harmonic yield of different ranges from the crystal momentum makes a big difference and the harmonic intensity is depressed from all k channels, which is related to the interferences between harmonics from symmetric k channels.