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Extraction Of The Species-Dependent Dipole Amplitude And Phase From High-Order Harmonic Spectra In Rare-Gas Atoms, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin
Extraction Of The Species-Dependent Dipole Amplitude And Phase From High-Order Harmonic Spectra In Rare-Gas Atoms, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin
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Based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra obtained from solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atoms, we established quantitatively that the HHG yield can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave packet and photorecombination cross sections, and the shape of the returning wave packet is shown to be largely independent of the species. By comparing the HHG spectra generated from different targets under identical laser pulses, accurate structural information, including the phase of the recombination amplitude, can be retrieved. This result opens up the possibility of studying the target structure of complex systems, including their time evolution, …
Large-Angle Electron Diffraction Structure In Laser-Induced Rescattering From Rare Gases, D. Ray, B. Ulrich, I. Bocharova, C. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, B. Gramkow, M. Magrakvelidze, S. De, I. V. Litvinyuk, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin, G. G. Paulus, C. L. Cocke
Large-Angle Electron Diffraction Structure In Laser-Induced Rescattering From Rare Gases, D. Ray, B. Ulrich, I. Bocharova, C. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, B. Gramkow, M. Magrakvelidze, S. De, I. V. Litvinyuk, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin, G. G. Paulus, C. L. Cocke
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We have measured full momentum images of electrons rescattered from Xe, Kr, and Ar following the liberation of the electrons from these atoms by short, intense laser pulses. At high momenta the spectra show angular structure (diffraction) which is very target dependent and in good agreement with calculated differential cross sections for the scattering of free electrons from the corresponding ionic cores.
Accurate Retrieval Of Structural Information From Laser-Induced Photoelectron And High-Order Harmonic Spectra By Few-Cycle Laser Pulses, Toru Morishita, Anh-Thu Le, Zhangjin Chen, C. D. Lin
Accurate Retrieval Of Structural Information From Laser-Induced Photoelectron And High-Order Harmonic Spectra By Few-Cycle Laser Pulses, Toru Morishita, Anh-Thu Le, Zhangjin Chen, C. D. Lin
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By analyzing accurate theoretical results from solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation of atoms in few-cycle laser pulses, we established the general conclusion that laser-generated high-energy electron momentum spectra and high-order harmonic spectra can be used to extract accurate differential elastic scattering and photo-recombination cross sections of the target ion with free electrons, respectively. Since both electron scattering and photoionization (the inverse of photo-recombination) are the conventional means for interrogating the structure of atoms and molecules, this result implies that existing few-cycle infrared lasers can be implemented for ultrafast imaging of transient molecules with temporal resolution of a few femtoseconds.