When focusing an ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulse (Iλ20 > 1016W.cm−2) onto a solid, the incident laser field is sufficiently high to ionise almost entirely the target at the very beginning of the pulse. Thus the most part of the laser field is reflected in the specular direction by the overdense plasma created until then : This is what we call a plasma mirror. The electrons, accelerated by the ultra-intense laser field, are pulled out of the plasma with speeds which are almost equal to the speed of light c. For each laser period, electrons are the sources of a high-frequency radiation that can extend to the Extreme Ultra Violet or X domains. This periodicity in the generation process leads to the emergence of a harmonic spectrum of the...