Date and Time: April 11, 2025, 10:00-11:00
Venue:Room 439, 4rd Floor, Building 3, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo,and via ZOOM (Advance registration required for both)
Speaker: Prof. Ido Kaminer (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Title Strong-Field Quantum Optics
Decades of research in photonics established a mindset that quantum optics matters mostly for fewphoton processes, whereas high-intensity light behaves mostly classically. In this talk, I will review
recent developments that bridge this gap. In a series of recent works, we found quantum optical
effects intrinsic to strong-field processes, for example showing that high-harmonic generation and
other atto-science phenomena can become sensitive to the quantum nature of the driving field. I will
present key theoretical advances and pioneering experiments, showing how correlations between
emitters can get imprinted on emitted harmonics, and how high-harmonic spectra depend on the
photon statistics of the driving field. I will discuss ongoing experiments by us and by other groups
around the world, wrapping up with outlook on the prospects for engineering quantum many-photon
states and entangled attosecond pulses.
[1] A. Gorlach, O. Neufeld, N. Rivera, O. Cohen, and I. Kaminer, The Quantum-Optical Nature of High Harmonic
Generation, Nature Communications 11, 4598 (2020)
[2] A. Pizzi, A. Gorlach, N. Rivera, A. Nunnenkamp, and I. Kaminer, Light emission from strongly driven many-body
systems, Nature Physics 19, 551 (2023)
[3] A. Gorlach, M. Even Tzur, M. Birk, M. Krüger, N. Rivera, O. Cohen, and I. Kaminer, High harmonic generation driven by quantum light, Nature Physics 19, 1689 (2023)
[4] M. Khalaf and I. Kaminer, Compton Scattering Driven by Quantum Light, Science Advances 9, eade0932 (2023)
[5] M. Even Tzur, M. Birk, A. Gorlach, M. Krüger, I. Kaminer, and O. Cohen, Photon-statistics force in ultrafast electron dynamics, Nature Photonics 17, 501 (2023)
[6] A. Rasputnyi, Z. Chen, M. Birk, O. Cohen, I. Kaminer, M. Krüger, D. Seletskiy, M. Chekhova, F. Tani, High Harmonic Generation by Bright Squeezed Vacuum, Nature Physics 20, 1960 (2024)
[7] M. Even Tzur, C. Mor, N. Yaffe, M. Birk, A. Rasputnyi, O. Kneller, I. Nisim, I. Kaminer, M. Krüger, N. Dudovich, O. Cohen, Measuring and controlling the birth of quantum attosecond pulses, arXiv:2502.09427 (2025)
Language: English
Host Fqaculty Member:Kenichi ISHIKAWA
Contact:
sec-utripl@utripl.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Note: This seminar is open to the public, but we ask all participants to provide their name, affiliation, and email address for record-keeping purposes.