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Zhao X, Liu M. Excitation dynamics in molecule resolved by internuclear distance driven by the strong laser field. OPTICS EXPRESS 2024; 32:355-365. [PMID: 38175066 DOI: 10.1364/oe.503839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Rydberg-state excitation of stretched model molecules subjected to near-infrared intense laser fields has been investigated based on a fully quantum model (QM) proposed recently and the numerical solutions of time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). Given the good agreement between QM and TDSE, it is found that, as the molecules are stretched, the electron tends to be trapped into low-lying Rydberg-states after its ionization from the core, which can be attributed to the shift of the ionization moments corresponding to maximum excitation populations. Moreover, the n-distribution is broadened for molecules with increasing internuclear distance, which results from the change of momentum distribution of emitted electrons. Analysis indicates that both of the above phenomena are closely related to the interference effect of electronic wave packets emitted from different nuclei. Our study provides a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular excitation in intense laser fields, as well as a means of possible applications to related experimental observations.
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Yang Y, Ren H, Zhang M, Zhou S, Mu X, Li X, Wang Z, Deng K, Li M, Ma P, Li Z, Hao X, Li W, Chen J, Wang C, Ding D. H 2 formation via non-Born-Oppenheimer hydrogen migration in photoionized ethane. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4951. [PMID: 37587115 PMCID: PMC10432507 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40628-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023] Open
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Neutral H2 formation via intramolecular hydrogen migration in hydrocarbon molecules plays a vital role in many chemical and biological processes. Here, employing cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy (COLTRIMS) and pump-probe technique, we find that the non-adiabatic coupling between the ground and excited ionic states of ethane through conical intersection leads to a significantly high yield of neutral H2 fragment. Based on the analysis of fingerprints that are sensitive to orbital symmetry and electronic state energies in the photoelectron momentum distributions, we tag the initial electronic population of both the ground and excited ionic states and determine the branching ratios of H2 formation channel from those two states. Incorporating theoretical simulation, we established the timescale of the H2 formation to be ~1300 fs. We provide a comprehensive characterization of H2 formation in ionic states of ethane mediated by conical intersection and reveals the significance of non-adiabatic coupling dynamics in the intramolecular hydrogen migration.
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- Yizhang Yang
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 226010, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China.
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, 518118, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, 518118, Shenzhen, China
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Physical Sciences, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China.
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Pan S, Zhang Z, Xu L, Zhang W, Lu P, Ji Q, Lin K, Zhou L, Lu C, Ni H, Ruiz C, Ueda K, He F, Wu J. Manipulating Parallel and Perpendicular Multiphoton Transitions in H_{2} Molecules. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:143203. [PMID: 37084425 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.143203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We demonstrate that dissociative ionization of H_{2} can be fully manipulated in an angle-time-resolved fashion, employing a polarization-skewed (PS) laser pulse in which the polarization vector rotates. The leading and falling edges of the PS laser pulse, characterized by unfolded field polarization, trigger, sequentially, parallel and perpendicular transitions of stretching H_{2} molecules, respectively. These transitions result in counterintuitive proton ejections that deviate significantly from the laser polarization directions. Our findings demonstrate that the reaction pathways can be controlled through fine-tuning the time-dependent polarization of the PS laser pulse. The experimental results are well reproduced using an intuitive wave-packet surface propagation simulation method. This research highlights the potential of PS laser pulses as powerful tweezers to resolve and manipulate complex laser-molecule interactions.
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- Shengzhe Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Shanghai Key Lab of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- Instituto Universitario de Física Fundamental y Matemáticas, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Lu C, Shi M, Pan S, Zhou L, Qiang J, Lu P, Zhang W, Wu J. Electron transfer in strong-field three-body fragmentation of ArKr 2 trimers. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:094302. [PMID: 36889967 DOI: 10.1063/5.0134833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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We experimentally studied the three-body fragmentation dynamics of a noble gas cluster (ArKr2) upon its multiple ionization by an intense femtosecond laser pulse. The three-dimensional momentum vectors of correlated fragmental ions were measured in coincidence for each fragmentation event. A novel comet-like structure was observed in the Newton diagram of the quadruple-ionization-induced breakup channel of ArKr2 4+→ Ar+ + Kr+ + Kr2+. The concentrated head part of the structure mainly originates from the direct Coulomb explosion process, while the broader tail part of the structure stems from a three-body fragmentation process involving electron transfer between the distant Kr+ and Kr2+ ion fragments. Due to the field-driven electron transfer, the Coulomb repulsive force of the Kr2+ and Kr+ ions with respect to the Ar+ ion undergoes exchange, leading to changes in the ion emission geometry in the Newton plot. An energy sharing among the separating Kr2+ and Kr+ entities was observed. Our study indicates a promising approach for investigating the strong-field-driven intersystem electron transfer dynamics by using the Coulomb explosion imaging of an isosceles triangle van der Waals cluster system.
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- Chenxu Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Nie Z, Nambu N, Marsh KA, Welch E, Matteo D, Zhang C, Wu Y, Patchkovskii S, Morales F, Smirnova O, Joshi C. Cross-polarized common-path temporal interferometry for high-sensitivity strong-field ionization measurements. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:25696-25706. [PMID: 36237094 DOI: 10.1364/oe.463424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Absolute density measurements of low-ionization-degree or low-density plasmas ionized by lasers are very important for understanding strong-field physics, atmospheric propagation of intense laser pulses, Lidar etc. A cross-polarized common-path temporal interferometer using balanced detection was developed for measuring plasma density with a sensitivity of ∼0.6 mrad, equivalent to a plasma density-length product of ∼2.6 × 1013 cm-2 if using an 800 nm probe laser. By using this interferometer, we have investigated strong-field ionization yield versus intensity for various noble gases (Ar, Kr, and Xe) using 800 nm, 55 fs laser pulses with both linear (LP) and circular (CP) polarization. The experimental results were compared to the theoretical models of Ammosov-Delone-Krainov (ADK) and Perelomov-Popov-Terent'ev (PPT). We find that the measured phase change induced by plasma formation can be explained by the ADK theory in the adiabatic tunneling ionization regime, while PPT model can be applied to all different regimes. We have also measured the photoionization and fractional photodissociation of molecular (MO) hydrogen. By comparing our experimental results with PPT and MO-PPT models, we have determined the likely ionization pathways when using three different pump laser wavelengths of 800 nm, 400 nm, and 267 nm.
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Liu YR, Kimberg V, Wu Y, Wang JG, Vendrell O, Zhang SB. Ultraviolet Pump-Probe Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Electron-Rotation Coupling in Diatomics. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:5534-5539. [PMID: 34100612 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The electronic angular momentum projected onto the diatomic axis couples with the angular momentum of the nuclei, significantly affecting the rotational motion of the system under electronic excitations by intense lasers. In this letter, we propose a pump-probe photodissociation scheme for an accurate determination of electron-rotation coupling effects induced by the strong fields. As a showcase we study the CH+ molecule excited by a short intense ultraviolet pump pulse to the A1Π state, which triggers coupled rovibrational dynamics. The dynamics is observed by measuring the kinetic energy release and angular resolved photofragmentation upon photodissociation induced by the time-delayed probe pulse populating the C1Σ+ state. Simulations of the rovibrational dynamics unravel clear fingerprints of the electron-rotation coupling effects that can be observed experimentally. The proposed pump-probe scheme opens new possibilities for the study of ultrafast dynamics following valence electronic transitions with current laser technology, and possible applications are also discussed.
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- Yan Rong Liu
- School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 10691, Sweden
- International Research Center of Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry, Siberian Federal University - IRC SQC, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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Soltani M, Memarian HR, Sabzyan H. Photooxidation of 3,5-diaryl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolines: Experimental and computational studies. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Ji Q, Pan S, He P, Wang J, Lu P, Li H, Gong X, Lin K, Zhang W, Ma J, Li H, Duan C, Liu P, Bai Y, Li R, He F, Wu J. Timing Dissociative Ionization of H_{2} Using a Polarization-Skewed Femtosecond Laser Pulse. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:233202. [PMID: 31868470 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.233202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We experimentally observe the bond stretching time of one-photon and net-two-photon dissociation pathways of singly ionized H_{2} molecules driven by a polarization-skewed femtosecond laser pulse. By measuring the angular distributions of the ejected photoelectron and nuclear fragments in coincidence, the cycle-changing polarization of the laser field enables us to clock the photon-ionization starting time and photon-dissociation stopping time, analogous to a stopwatch. After the single ionization of H_{2}, our results show that the produced H_{2}^{+} takes almost the same time in the one-photon and net-two-photon dissociation pathways to stretch to the internuclear distance of the one-photon coupled dipole-transition between the ground and excited electronic states. The spatiotemporal mapping character of the polarization-skewed laser field provides us a straightforward route to clock the ultrafast dynamics of molecules with sub-optical-cycle time resolution.
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- Qinying Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Zhao Y, Zhou Y, Liang J, Zeng Z, Ke Q, Liu Y, Li M, Lu P. Frustrated tunneling ionization in the elliptically polarized strong laser fields. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:21689-21700. [PMID: 31510241 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.021689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We theoretically investigated frustrated tunneling ionization (FTI) in the interaction of atoms with elliptically polarized laser pulses by a semiclassical ensemble model. Our results show that the yield of frustrated tunneling ionization events exhibits an anomalous behavior which maximizes at the nonzero ellipticity. By tracing back the initial tunneling coordinates, we show that this anomalous behavior is due to the fact that the initial transverse velocity at tunneling of the FTI events is nonzero in the linear laser pulses and it moves across zero as the ellipticity increases. The FTI yield maximizes at the ellipticity when the initial transverse momentum for being trapped is zero. Moreover, the angular momentum distribution of the FTI events and its ellipticity dependence are also explored. The anomalous behavior revealed in our work is very similar to the previously observed ellipticity dependence of the near- and below-threshold harmonics, and thus our work may uncover the mechanism of the below-threshold harmonics which is still a controversial issue.
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