High harmonic generation in monolayer MoS2 controlled by resonant and near-resonant pulses on ultrashort time scales

We report on experimental investigation of nonperturbative high harmonic generation (HHG) in monolayer MoS2 in the ultraviolet spectral region driven by mid-infrared light. We study how the HHG is influenced by pre-excitation of the monolayer using resonant and near-resonant pulses in a pump-probe-like scheme. The resonant light creates high density exciton population. Due to ultrafast dephasing caused by electron-electron scattering, the HHG is suppressed in the presence of pre-excited carriers. In the case of near-resonant excitation with photon energy below the exciton transition, the dynamics of the observed suppression of the HHG yield contains a fast component, which is a consequence of momentum scattering at carriers, which are excited by two-photon transition when the two pulses temporally overlap in the sample. This interpretation is supported by comparing the experimental data with theoretical calculations of the two-photon absorption spectrum of the MoS2 monolayer. This work demonstrates a possibility to control HHG in low-dimensional materials on ultrashort timescales by combining the driving strong-field pulse with a weak near-resonant light.

Keywords

EXCITONS, FIELD

Citation

APL Photonics. 2023, vol. 8, issue 8, 8 p.
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/app/article/8/8/086103/2905253/High-harmonic-generation-in-monolayer-MoS2

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Peer-reviewed

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Published version

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en

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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