Photon bunching in high-harmonic emission controlled by quantum light

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05474v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 12:53:42 GMT
• Title: Photon bunching in high-harmonic emission controlled by quantum light
• Authors: Samuel Lemieux, Sohail A. Jalil, David Purschke, Neda Boroumand, David Villeneuve, Andrei Naumov, Thomas Brabec, Giulio Vampa,
• Abstract summary: Recent theories have laid the groundwork for understanding how quantum-optical properties affect high-field photonics. We demonstrate a new experimental approach that transduces some properties of a quantum-optical state through a strong-field nonlinearity. Our results suggest that perturbing strong-field dynamics with quantum-optical states is a viable way to coherently control the generation of these states at short wavelengths.
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• Abstract: Attosecond spectroscopy comprises several techniques to probe matter through electrons and photons. One frontier of attosecond methods is to reveal complex phenomena arising from quantum-mechanical correlations in the matter system, in the photon fields and among them. Recent theories have laid the groundwork for understanding how quantum-optical properties affect high-field photonics, such as strong-field ionization and acceleration of electrons in quantum-optical fields, and how entanglement between the field modes arises during the interaction. Here we demonstrate a new experimental approach that transduces some properties of a quantum-optical state through a strong-field nonlinearity. We perturb high-harmonic emission from a semiconductor with a bright squeezed vacuum field resulting in the emission of sidebands of the high-harmonics with super-Poissonian statistics, indicating that the emitted photons are bunched. Our results suggest that perturbing strong-field dynamics with quantum-optical states is a viable way to coherently control the generation of these states at short wavelengths, such as extreme ultraviolet or soft X-rays. Quantum correlations will be instrumental to advance attosecond spectroscopy and imaging beyond the classical limits.

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