We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-activeelectron processes in 2D periodic potentials. Contrary to the absence of HHG in the atomic case, circular HHGs below the bandgap with different helicities are produced from intraband transitions in solids with C 4 symmetry driven by circularly polarized lasers. Harmonics above the bandgap are elliptically polarized due to the interband transitions. High-order elliptically polarized harmonics can be generated efficiently by both co-rotating and counter-rotating bicircular mid-infrared lasers.The cutoff energy, ellipticity, phase, and intensity of the harmonics can be tuned by the control of the relative phase difference between the 1ω and 2ω fields in bicircularly polarized lasers, which can be utilized to image the structure of solids.
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