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Xu Y, Han L, Jiang W, Zuo Z, Pan S, Fleischer A, Ueda K, Wu J. Attosecond ionic photoionization spectroscopy. OPTICS LETTERS 2024; 49:3412-3415. [PMID: 38875633 DOI: 10.1364/ol.523947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/16/2024]
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Photoionization is one of the most fundamental processes in light-matter interaction. Advanced attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy provides the possibility to characterize the ultrafast photoemission process in an extremely short attosecond time scale. Following scattering symmetry rules, residual ions encode ultrafast photoionization prints at the instant of electron removal forming an alternative electron emission chronoscope. Here, we experimentally illustrate the attosecond ion reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transition (RABBIT)-like interferometry through the development of high-resolution ion momentum detection in atomic photoionization processes. Our ion interferometry presents identical momentum- and time-dependent scattering phase shift, as we observed in photoelectron spectroscopy, and thus demonstrates that ion interferometry can be a possible alternative attosecond approach to resolve the photoionization process, without the electron homogeneity limitation.
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Ertel D, Busto D, Makos I, Schmoll M, Benda J, Bragheri F, Osellame R, Lindroth E, Patchkovskii S, Mašín Z, Sansone G. Anisotropy Parameters for Two-Color Photoionization Phases in Randomly Oriented Molecules: Theory and Experiment in Methane and Deuteromethane. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:1685-1697. [PMID: 38394372 PMCID: PMC10926910 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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We present combined theoretical and experimental work investigating the angle-resolved phases of the photoionization process driven by a two-color field consisting of an attosecond pulse train and an infrared pulse in an ensemble of randomly oriented molecules. We derive a general form for the two-color photoelectron (and time-delay) angular distribution valid also in the case of chiral molecules and when relative polarizations of the photons contributing to the attosecond photoelectron interferometer differ. We show a comparison between the experimental data and theoretical predictions in an ensemble of methane and deuteromethane molecules, discussing the effect of nuclear dynamics on the photoionization phases. Finally, we demonstrate that the oscillating component and the phase of the two-color signal can be fitted by using complex asymmetry parameters, in perfect analogy to the atomic case.
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- Dominik Ertel
- Physikalisches
Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße
3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches
Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße
3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Department
of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Physikalisches
Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße
3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches
Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße
3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute
of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague 8, 180 00 Czech
Republic
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- Department
of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova
University Center, SE-106
91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute
of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague 8, 180 00 Czech
Republic
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- Physikalisches
Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße
3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Han M, Ji JB, Leung CS, Ueda K, Wörner HJ. Separation of photoionization and measurement-induced delays. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadj2629. [PMID: 38266083 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj2629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Photoionization of matter is one of the fastest electronic processes in nature. Experimental measurements of photoionization dynamics have become possible through attosecond metrology. However, all experiments reported to date contain a so-far unavoidable measurement-induced contribution, known as continuum-continuum (CC) or Coulomb-laser-coupling delay. In traditional attosecond metrology, this contribution is nonadditive for most systems and nontrivial to calculate. Here, we introduce the concept of mirror symmetry-broken attosecond interferometry, which enables the direct and separate measurement of both the native one-photon ionization delays and the CC delays. Our technique solves the longstanding challenge of experimentally isolating these two contributions. This advance opens the door to the next generation of accurate measurements and precision tests that will set standards for benchmarking the accuracy of electronic structure and electron-dynamics methods.
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- Meng Han
- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- James R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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Gong X, Zhang W, Lu P, Ni H, Wu J. Probing and Steering Attosecond Electron Motion Using Tailored Ultrafast Laser Fields. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:401-412. [PMID: 38181198 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
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An ultrafast intense laser field is one of the most important tools to observe and manipulate electronic and nuclear dynamics with subcycle precision in highly nonlinear light-matter interactions, which provides access to attosecond chemistry and physics. In this review, we briefly summarize the protocol of attosecond chronoscopy and its application in probing the attosecond photoemission dynamics from atoms and molecules. We also review the control schemes of attosecond electron motion in atoms and molecules as well as molecular bond formation and cleavage with the assistance of tailored femtosecond laser fields.
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- Xiaochun Gong
- 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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Jiang W, Armstrong GSJ, Han L, Xu Y, Zuo Z, Tong J, Lu P, Dahlström JM, Ueda K, Brown AC, van der Hart HW, Gong X, Wu J. Resolving Quantum Interference Black Box through Attosecond Photoionization Spectroscopy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:203201. [PMID: 38039486 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.203201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Multiphoton light-matter interactions invoke a so-called "black box" in which the experimental observations contain the quantum interference between multiple pathways. Here, we employ polarization-controlled attosecond photoelectron metrology with a partial wave manipulator to deduce the pathway interference within this quantum 'black box" for the two-photon ionization of neon atoms. The angle-dependent and attosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectra are measured across a broad energy range. Two-photon phase shifts for each partial wave are reconstructed through the comprehensive analysis of these photoelectron spectra. We resolve the quantum interference between the degenerate p→d→p and p→s→p two-photon ionization pathways, in agreement with our theoretical simulations. Our approach thus provides an attosecond time-resolved microscope to look inside the "black box" of pathway interference in ultrafast dynamics of atoms, molecules, and condensed matter.
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- Wenyu Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Centre for Light-Matter Interaction, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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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
- Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Centre for Light-Matter Interaction, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Light-Matter Interaction, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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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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- 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
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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Tong J, Pan S, Jiang W, Han L, Xu Y, Zuo Z, Lu P, Gong X, Wu J. Identifying photoelectron releasing order in strong-field dissociative ionization of H 2. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:25467-25476. [PMID: 37710432 DOI: 10.1364/oe.495066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Driven by intense laser fields, the outgoing photoelectrons in molecules possess a quiver motion, resulting in the rise of the effective ionization potential. The coupling of the field-dressed ionization potential with abundant molecular dynamics complicates the laser-molecule interactions. Here, we demonstrate an approach to resolve photoelectron releasing order in the dissociative and non-dissociative channels of multiphoton ionization driven by an orthogonally polarized two-color femtosecond laser pulse. The photoelectron kinetic energy releases and the regular nodes in the photoelectron angular distributions due to the participation of different continuum partial waves allow us to deduce the field-dressed ionization potential of various channels. It returns the ponderomotive energy experienced by the outgoing electron and reveals the corresponding photoionization instants within the laser pulse. Our results provide a route to explore the complex strong-field ionization dynamics of molecules using two-dimensional photoelectron momentum spectroscopy.
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