Strong-field rescattering physics—self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons

CD Lin, AT Le, Z Chen, T Morishita… - Journal of Physics B …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
When an atom or molecule is exposed to a short intense laser pulse, electrons that were
removed at an earlier time may be driven back by the oscillating electric field of the laser to …

Strong-field ionization with two-color circularly polarized laser fields

CA Mancuso, DD Hickstein, P Grychtol, R Knut, O Kfir… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Strong-field ionization provides fundamental insight into light-matter interactions, encoding
the structure of atoms and molecules on the subångström and subfemtosecond scales. In …

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 …

Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields

CA Mancuso, DD Hickstein, KM Dorney, JL Ellis… - Physical review A, 2016 - APS
High-harmonic generation driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly polarized laser
fields was recently demonstrated experimentally as a breakthrough source of bright …

Theory of subcycle linear momentum transfer in strong-field tunneling ionization

H Ni, S Brennecke, X Gao, PL He, S Donsa… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Interaction of a strong laser pulse with matter transfers not only energy but also linear
momentum of the photons. Recent experimental advances have made it possible to detect …

Extracting photoelectron spectra from the time-dependent wave function. II. Validation of two methods: Projection on plane waves and time-dependent surface flux

B Fetić, M Tunja, W Becker, DB Milošević - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Extraction of the photoelectron spectrum (PES) from the time-dependent wave-packet
calculations is a fundamental requirement for studying strong-field ionization. To analyze the …

Coulomb-Volkov approximation for near-threshold ionization by short laser pulses

DG Arbó, JE Miraglia, MS Gravielle, K Schiessl… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
The formation of near-threshold structures in the angle-resolved photoelectron spectrum, the
cusp in the transverse electron momentum distribution, and the forward-backward …

Ab initio angle- and energy-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with time-dependent density-functional theory

U De Giovannini, D Varsano, MAL Marques… - Physical Review A …, 2012 - APS
We present a time-dependent density-functional method able to describe the photoelectron
spectrum of atoms and molecules when excited by laser pulses. This computationally …

Fine structures in the intensity dependence of excitation and ionization probabilities of hydrogen atoms in intense 800-nm laser pulses

Q Li, XM Tong, T Morishita, H Wei, CD Lin - Physical review A, 2014 - APS
We studied the elementary processes of excitation and ionization of atomic hydrogen in an
intense 800-nm pulse with intensity in the 1.0 to 2.5× 10 14 W/cm 2 range. By analyzing …

Formation of very-low-energy states crossing the ionization threshold of argon atoms in strong mid-infrared fields

B Wolter, C Lemell, M Baudisch, MG Pullen, XM Tong… - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
Atomic ionization by intense mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses produces low-electron-energy
features that the strong-field approximation, which is expected to be valid in the tunneling …