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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 9891-9903Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009891
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [FIS2005-01351, CSD2007-00013]
- Junta de Castilla y Leon [SA146A08]
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The physics of laser-mater interactions beyond the perturbative limit configures the field of extreme non-linear optics. Although most experiments have been done in the near infrared (lambda <= 1 mu m), the situation is changing nowadays with the development of sources at longer wavelengths (< 5 mu m), opening new perspectives in the synthesis of shorter XUV attosecond pulses and higher frequencies. The theory of intense-field interactions is based either on the exact numerical integration of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation or in the development of models, mostly based on the strong-field approximation. Recent studies in the short-wave infrared show a divergence between the predictions of these models and the exact results. In this paper we will show that this discrepancy reveals the incompleteness of our present understanding of high-order harmonic generation. We discuss the physical grounds, provide a theoretical framework beyond the standard approximations and develop a compact approach that accounts for the correct scaling of the harmonic yield. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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