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High-harmonic generation

To the extreme

High-harmonic spectroscopy is a powerful tool for probing the electronic structure of atoms and molecules in gases. Experiments now show that similar emission from solids has a different origin.

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Figure 1: High-harmonic generation in solids.

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Vampa, G., Villeneuve, D. To the extreme. Nature Phys 11, 529–530 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3386

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