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Ultrafast electron delocalization induced by a fs laser pulse is a well-known process and is the initial step for important applications such as fragmentation of molecules or laser ablation in solids. It is well understood that an intense…

The influence has been studied of the ionization laser polarization on the effective temperature of an ultracold electron source, which is based on near-threshold photoionization. This source is capable of producing both high-intensity and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 W. J. Engelen , D. J. Bakker , O. J. Luiten , E. J. D. Vredenbregt

We analyze two-center interference effects in the yields of ionization of a dissociating hydrogen molecular ion by an ultrashort VUV laser pulse. To this end, we performed numerical simulations of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Picón , A. Bahabad , H. C. Kapteyn , M. M. Murnane , A. Becker

Atomic cadmium ions are loaded into radiofrequency ion traps by photoionization of atoms in a cadmium vapor with ultrafast laser pulses. The photoionization is driven through an intermediate atomic resonance with a frequency-quadrupled…

Nonsequential multiple ionization of atoms in intense laser fields is initiated by a recollision between an electron, freed by tunneling, and its parent ion. Following recollision, the initial electron shares its energy with several bound…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. Liu , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , W Becker , P. B. Corkum

The ionization dynamics of a Xenon cluster with 40 atoms is analyzed under a pum p probe scenario of laser pulses where an infrared laser pulse of 50 fs length follows with a well defined time delay a VUV pulse of the same length and peak…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-10 Ch. Siedschlag , J. M. Rost

We develop the two-electron attosecond streak camera under realistic conditions using a quasi-classical model. We assume extreme ultra-violet (XUV) attosecond pulses with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 24 attoseconds, centered at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Price , A. Staudte , P. B. Corkum , A. Emmanouilidou

Photoionisation is a process where absorption of one or several photons liberates an electron and creates a hole in a quantum system, such as an atom or a molecule. Is it faster to remove an electron using one or many photons, and how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Jivesh Kaushal , Felipe Morales , Lisa Torlina , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

The feasibility of complete photoionization experiments, in which the full set of photoionization matrix elements are determined, using multiphoton ionization schemes with polarization-shaped pulses has recently been demonstrated [Hockett…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 P. Hockett , M. Wollenhaupt , C. Lux , T. Baumert

Although high field laser-induced ionization is a fundamental process underlying many applications, there have been no absolute measurements of the nonlinear polarizability of atoms and molecules in the presence of ionization. Such…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 J. K. Wahlstrand , S. Zahedpour , A. Bahl , M. Kolesik , H. M. Milchberg

Attosecond noncollinear four wave mixing spectroscopy with one attosecond extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulse and two few-cycle near-infrared (NIR) pulses was used to measure the autoionization decay lifetimes of inner valence electronic…

We report optical absorption imaging of ultracold neutral plasmas.Images are used to measure the ion absorption spectrum, which is Doppler-broadened. Through the spectral width, we monitor ion equilibration in the first 250ns after plasma…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. E. Simien , Y. C. Chen , P. Gupta , S. Laha , Y. N. Martinez , P. G. Mickelson , S. B. Nagel , T. C. Killian

We describe in detail how attosecond delays in laser-assisted photoionization can be computed using perturbation theory based on two-photon matrix elements. Special emphasis is laid on above-threshold ionization, where the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. M. Dahlström , E. Lindroth

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043201 (2020)] (Ref.1) Liao et al. propose a theory of the interferometric photoemission delay based on the concepts of the photoelectron phase and photoelectron effective mass. The present comment…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 E. E. Krasovskii , R. O. Kuzian

Ionization of an atom or molecule by a strong laser field produces sub-optical cycle wave packets whose control has given rise to attosecond science. The final states of the wave packets depend on ionization and deflection by the laser…

Time-resolved studies have so far relied on rapidly triggering a photo-induced dynamic in chemical or biological ions or molecules and subsequently probing them with a beam of fast moving photons or electrons that crosses the studied…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Hazem Daoud , R. J. Dwayne Miller

Intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses enable the investigation of XUV-induced nonlinear processes and are a prerequisite for the development of attosecond pump - attosecond probe experiments. While highly nonlinear processes in the XUV…

Photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) obtained from ionization of potassium atoms using moderately intense femtosecond IR fields ($\sim$10$^{12}$Wcm$^{-2}$) of various polarization states are shown to provide a route to "complete"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Paul Hockett , Matthias Wollenhaupt , Christian Lux , Thomas Baumert

We study ionization of aligned H$_2^+$ in strong elliptically-polarized laser fields numerically and analytically. The calculated offset angle in photoelectron momentum distribution is several degrees larger for the molecule than a model…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 J. Y. Che , Y. G. Peng , F. B. Zhang , X. J. Xie , G. G. Xin , Y. J. Chen

Electron motion on the (sub-)femtosecond time scale constitutes the fastest response in many natural phenomena such as light-induced phase transitions and chemical reactions. Whereas static electron densities in single molecules can be…