- Shcherbakov, Maxim;
- Zhang, Haizhong;
- Tripepi, Michael;
- Sartorello, Giovanni;
- Talisa, Noah;
- AlShafey, Abdallah;
- Fan, Zhiyuan;
- Twardowski, Justin;
- Krivitsky, Leonid;
- Kuznetsov, Arseniy;
- Chowdhury, Enam;
- Shvets, Gennady
High harmonic generation (HHG) opens a window on the fundamental science of strong-field light-mater interaction and serves as a key building block for attosecond optics and metrology. Resonantly enhanced HHG from hot spots in nanostructures is an attractive route to overcoming the well-known limitations of gases and bulk solids. Here, we demonstrate a nanoscale platform for highly efficient HHG driven by intense mid-infrared laser pulses: an ultra-thin resonant gallium phosphide (GaP) metasurface. The wide bandgap and the lack of inversion symmetry of the GaP crystal enable the generation of even and odd harmonics covering a wide range of photon energies between 1.3 and 3 eV with minimal reabsorption. The resonantly enhanced conversion efficiency facilitates single-shot measurements that avoid material damage and pave the way to study the controllable transition between perturbative and non-perturbative regimes of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale.