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The traditional methods for generating such pulses often involve complex laser configurations or specially engineered targets, limiting their experimental feasibility. In this study, we present a streamlined and effective approach to producing circularly polarized attosecond pulses by employing a linearly polarized laser field in conjunction with a stereosymmetric linear molecule, 1-butyne (C4H6). The generation of high-order harmonics by this molecular system reveals a distinct plateau in the perpendicular polarization component, which facilitates the generation of isolated attosecond pulses with circular polarization. Through a detailed analysis of the time-dependent charge density dynamics across atomic sites, we identify the atoms primarily responsible for the emission of circularly polarized harmonics in the plane orthogonal to the driving field. Moreover, we explore the role of multi-orbital contributions in shaping the polarization properties of the harmonic spectra. Our findings underscore the importance of molecular symmetry and the electronic structure in tailoring the harmonic polarization, and they demonstrate a viable pathway for using circularly polarized attosecond pulses to probe molecular chirality. This method offers a balance between simplicity and performance, opening new avenues for practical applications in chiral recognition and ultrafast stereochemical analysis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17081329","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,15]],"date-time":"2025-08-15T08:39:07Z","timestamp":1755247147000},"page":"1329","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Strong-Field Interaction of Molecules with Linearly Polarized Light: Pathway to Circularly Polarized Harmonic Generation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0504-987X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shushan","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China"}]},{"given":"Nan","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China"}]},{"given":"Dan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Science, Jilin University of Chemical Technology, Jilin 132002, China"}]},{"given":"Muhong","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronic Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"447","DOI":"10.1016\/0030-4018(85)90151-8","article-title":"Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses","volume":"55","author":"Strickland","year":"1985","journal-title":"Opt. 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