Attosecond imaging of molecules using high harmonic spectroscopy

P Peng, C Marceau, DM Villeneuve - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The availability of attosecond-duration extreme ultraviolet or soft X-ray light sources has
opened up new fields of research in atomic and molecular physics. These pulses can be as …

High harmonic generation in solids: particle and wave perspectives

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas-phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a
new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and angstrom spatial …

Ultrafast Picometer-Resolved Molecular Structure Imaging by Laser-Induced High-Order Harmonics

L He, CH Yuen, Y He, S Sun, E Goetz, AT Le, Y Deng… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Real-time visualization of molecular transformations is a captivating yet challenging frontier
of ultrafast optical science and physical chemistry. While ultrafast x-ray and electron …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring ultrafast vibrational dynamics of isotopic molecules with frequency modulation of high-order harmonics

L He, Q Zhang, P Lan, W Cao, X Zhu, C Zhai… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Molecules constituted by different isotopes are different in vibrational modes, making it
possible to elucidate the mechanism of a chemical reaction via the kinetic isotope effect …

Direct visualization of valence electron motion using strong-field photoelectron holography

M He, Y Li, Y Zhou, M Li, W Cao, P Lu - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Watching the valence electron move in molecules on its intrinsic timescale has been one of
the central goals of attosecond science and it requires measurements with subatomic spatial …

Determination of the ionization time using attosecond photoelectron interferometry

J Tan, Y Zhou, M He, Y Chen, Q Ke, J Liang, X Zhu… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Laser-induced electron tunneling ionization from atoms and molecules plays as the trigger
for a broad class of interesting strong-field phenomena in attosecond community …

Huygens-Fresnel picture for high harmonic generation in solids

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
High harmonic generation (HHG) is usually described by the laser-induced recollision of
particlelike electrons, which lies at the heart of attosecond physics and also inspires …

Real-time observation of molecular spinning with angular high-harmonic spectroscopy

L He, P Lan, AT Le, B Wang, B Wang, X Zhu, P Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate an angular high-harmonic spectroscopy method to probe the spinning
dynamics of a molecular rotation wave packet in real time. With the excitation of two time …

High-order-harmonic generation of a doped semiconductor

T Huang, X Zhu, L Li, X Liu, P Lan, P Lu - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We investigate the high-order-harmonic generation (HHG) in doped semiconductors. The
HHG is simulated with the single-electron time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The results …

Analytically controlling the laser-induced electron phase in sub-cycle motion

DA Trieu, TTD Nguyen, TDD Nguyen, T Tran, VH Le… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We develop an approach to directly control the phase of an electron's sub-cycle motion in an
intense laser field. The method is established by tuning a low-frequency electric field applied …