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We experimentally investigate laser-induced dissociative recombination of CO$_2$ in linearly polarized strong laser fields with coincidence measurements. Our results show laser-induced dissociation processes originate from an electron…

Mapping equations of motion of the highly exited classical atom in a monochromatic field are generalized for the two-frequency microwave field. Analysis of the obtained equations indicates to the weak sensitivity of the position of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 B. Kaulakys , D. Grauzhinis , G. Vilutis

We report on the experimental studies of laser driven ion acceleration from double-layer target where a near-critical density target with a few-micron thickness is coated in front of a nanometer thin diamond-like carbon foil. A significant…

The ultrafast electronic and nuclear dynamics of H2 laser-induced double ionization is studied using a time-dependent wave packet approach that goes beyond the fixed nuclei approximation. The double ionization pathways are analyzed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Sebastien Saugout , Christian Cornaggia , Annick Suzor-Weiner , Eric Charron

The alignment dependence of the ionization behavior of H$_2$ exposed to intense ultrashort laser pulses is investigated on the basis of solutions of the full time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation within the fixed-nuclei and dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz

We revisit a recently proposed scheme [M.F. Ciappina et al 2019 Phys. Rev. A 99 043405] for accurate measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensities in a focus of high-power laser beams. The method is based on the observation of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 M. F. Ciappina , S. V. Popruzhenko

High-resolution photoelectron momentum distributions of Xe atoms ionized by 800-nm linearly polarized laser fields have been traced at intensities from 1.1*1013 to 3.5*1013W/cm2 using velocity-map imaging techniques. At certain laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Min Li , Peng Zhang , Siqiang Luo , Yueming Zhou , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

Two-color laser fields offer significantly enhanced control over electron excitation dynamics under ultrashort intense laser pulses compared to monochromatic fields. However, their strong nonlinearity necessitates computationally expensive…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 Mizuki Tani , Kenichi L. Ishikawa , Tomohito Otobe

The ionization-induced injection in laser wakefield acceleration has been recently demonstrated to be a promising injection scheme. However, the energy spread controlling in this mechanism remains a challenge because continuous injection in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ming Zeng , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Warren B. Mori , Jie Zhang

The laser-induced fragmentation dynamics of this most fundamental polar molecule HeH$^+$ are measured using an ion beam of helium hydride and an isotopologue at various wavelengths and intensities. In contrast to the prevailing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 P. Wustelt , F. Oppermann , Lun Yue , M. Möller , T. Stöhlker , S. Gräfe , M. Lein , G. G. Paulus , A. M. Sayler

Effects of ionization injection in low and high Z gas mixtures for the laser wake field acceleration of electrons are analyzed with the use of balance equations and particle-in-cell simulations via test probe particle trajectories in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 A. Zhidkov , N. Pathak , J. Koga , K. Huang , M. Kando , T. Hosokai

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

The dynamics of molecular electron excitation and ionisation is studied in real-time for ultra-short IR laser pulses of intensity I>10^{13} W/cm^{2}. The multi-electron molecule is modeled by a system of two active electrons moving in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. I. Pegarkov

We have studied strong-field enhanced dissociative ionization of D$_{2}$O in 40 fs, 800 nm laser pulses with focused intensities of $< 1 - 3 \times 10^{15}W/cm^2$ by resolving the charged fragment momenta with respect to the laser…

We explore the laser-induced ionization dynamics of N2 and CO2 molecules subjected to a few-cycle, linearly polarized, 800\,nm laser pulse using effective two-dimensional single active electron time-dependent quantum simulations. We show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Michel Peters , Tung Nguyen-Dang , Eric Charron , Arne Keller , Osman Atabek

The process of ionization of a hydrogen atom by a short infrared laser pulse is studied in the regime of very large pulse intensity, in the dipole approximation. Let $A$ denote the integral of the electric field of the pulse over time at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Juerg Froehlich , Alessandro Pizzo , Benjamin Schlein

Based on a combined quantum-classical treatment, a complete study of the strong field dynamics of H2+, i.e. including all nuclear and electronic DOF as well as dissociation and ionization, is presented. We find that the ro-vibrational…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2011-08-09 J. Handt , S. M. Krause , J. M. Rost , M. Fischer , F. Grossmann , R. Schmidt

The role of Coulomb focusing in above-threshold ionization in an elliptically polarized mid-infrared strong laser field is investigated within a semiclassical model incorporating tunneling and Coulomb field effects. It is shown that Coulomb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Chengpu Liu , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

For the laser wakefield acceleration, suppression of beam energy spread while keeping sufficient charge is one of the key challenges. In order to achieve this, we propose bichromatic laser ionization injection with combined laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Ming Zeng , Ji Luo , Min Chen , Warren B. Mori , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Bernhard Hidding

Two mechanisms of two-color (\omega + 2\omega) laser-induced field-free molecular orientation, based on the hyperpolarizability and ionization depletion, are explored and compared. The CO molecule is used as a computational example. While…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Michael Spanner , Serguei Patchkovskii , Eugene Frumker , Paul Corkum