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Numerical investigation of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is carried out in noble gases near metal nano-dimers. The effect of geometry, shape, and gap of the dimers in plasmon resonance and local electric field enhancement has been investigated numerically by using finite-difference time-domain methods. It is shown that a lack of symmetry in dimer shapes plays an important role in the HHG process, producing appreciable modifications to the energy-resolved photoelectron spectra.

In this paper, the design and construction of a pulsed Nd:YAG laser is described. The structure of this laser is based on a master oscillator power amplifier system. A master oscillator is an electro-optical Q-switched Nd:YAG rod laser. Face-pumping is used for the excitation of the slab structure, and a double-pass method is designed for the amplification stages. Two Nd:YAG zigzag slabs are utilized as power amplification stages in this laser. The laser diodes are stacked in a compact configuration and are used for rod and slabs pumping. The total pump energy in the amplifier stages is 3200 mJ at 808 nm. The output pulse energy achieved at 1064 nm is about 850 mJ of 10 ns pulse duration corresponding to 26.5% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency. Moreover, this laser can generate pulse energies around 430 mJ at 532 nm. The dependence of the output energy of MOPA and second harmonic generation operations on different pulse repetition rates (PRRs) from 1 to 100 Hz has been investigated. Experimental results show that the maximum fluctuations of the output energies are about 2.5 and 4% for 1064 and 532 nm, respectively.

We study plasmonic nanoparticle assisted high-order harmonic generation (HHG), illuminated by near infrared (NIR) laser sources, and the effect of the geometry of some different dimers on HHG cutoff frequency is evaluated. Dimers are installed on different dielectric substrates and the electric field enhancement factors are simulated. We demonstrate that NIR femtofiber sources are good options for the HHG process. Such sources can induce significant inhomogeneous electric fields in the nanogaps; and consequently, high harmonic cutoff orders more than 250 will be obtained. Moreover, by time dependent thermal analysis of Au nanoparticles exposed to NIR ultrafast high power lasers, we could determine the temperature distribution in the nanoparticle and substrate.

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