Static-Electric-Field-Induced Polarization Effects in Harmonic Generation

Bogdan Borca; A. V. Flegel; M. V. Frolov; N. L. Manakov; Dejan B. Milošević; Anthony F. Starace

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.732

Static-Electric-Field-Induced Polarization Effects in Harmonic Generation

Bogdan Borca, A. V. Flegel, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, Dejan B. Milošević, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 732 – Published 24 July 2000

Abstract

Two static-electric-field-induced effects on harmonic generation are demonstrated analytically and numerically: elliptic dichroism (in which the harmonic yield is different for right and left elliptically polarized laser fields) and elliptical polarization of harmonics produced by linearly polarized driving laser fields. Both effects stem from interference of real and imaginary parts of the nonlinear atomic susceptibilities. Possibilities for experimentally measuring these effects are discussed.

Received 22 December 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.732

Authors & Affiliations

Bogdan Borca^1,*, A. V. Flegel², M. V. Frolov², N. L. Manakov², Dejan B. Milošević^1,†, and Anthony F. Starace¹

¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0111
²Department of Physics, Voronezh State University, 394693 Voronezh, Russia

^*On leave from Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
^†On leave from Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.Present address: Max-Born Institute, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany.