Setting the photoelectron clock through molecular alignment
Abstract
The interaction of strong laser fields with matter intrinsically provides powerful tools to image transient dynamics with an extremely high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we study strong-field ionisation of laser-aligned molecules and show a full real-time picture of the photoelectron dynamics in the combined action of the laser field and the molecular interaction. We demonstrate that the molecule has a dramatic impact on the overall strong-field dynamics: it sets the clock for the emission of electrons with a given rescattering kinetic energy. This result represents a benchmark for the seminal statements of molecular-frame strong-field physics and has strong impact on the interpretation of self-diffraction experiments. Furthermore, the resulting encoding of the time-energy relation in molecular-frame photoelectron momentum distributions shows the way of probing the molecular potential in real-time and accessing a deeper understanding of electron transport during strong-field interactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.06622,
title = {Setting the photoelectron clock through molecular alignment},
author = {Andrea Trabattoni and Joss Wiese and Umberto De Giovannini and Jean François Olivieri and Terry Mullins and Jolijn Onvlee and Sang-Kil Son and Biagio Frusteri and Angel Rubio and Sebastian Trippel and Jochen Küpper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06622},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Final version. Added appendixes and supplementary display items