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When a molecule is submitted to a very intense laser pulse it emits coherent bursts of light in each optical half-cycle of the laser field. This process is known as high-order harmonic generation because the spectrum consists of many peaks at energies corresponding to an integer amount of laser photons. The harmonics contain information about the wave function of the loosest bound electron on an Ångström length scale and attosecond time scale. However, accurate theoretical models are needed in order to extract this information. In this thesis the most widely used model of high-order harmonic generation is extended to polar molecules by including the laser-induced Stark shift of each molecular orbitals. The Stark shift is shown to have a major influence on the relative strength of harmonic bursts in neighbouring half-cycles, as well as leaving an imprint on the phase of the harmonics. Surprisingly, the dominating first-order Stark phase turns out to be nearly independent of the laser intensity. |
