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

Mancuso, Christopher A.; Hickstein, Daniel D.; Grychtol, Patrik; Knut, Ronny; Kfir, Ofer; Tong, Xiao-Min; Dollar, Franklin; Zusin, Dmitriy; Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi; Gentry, Christian; Turgut, Emrah; Ellis, Jennifer L.; Chen, Ming-Chang; Fleischer, Avner; Cohen, Oren; Kapteyn, Henry C.; Murnane, Margaret M.

doi:10.1103/physreva.91.031402

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

Journal Article · Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.91.031402· OSTI ID:1690344

Mancuso, Christopher A. ^[1]; Hickstein, Daniel D. ^[1]; Grychtol, Patrik ^[1]; Knut, Ronny ^[1]; Kfir, Ofer ^[2]; Tong, Xiao-Min ^[3]; Dollar, Franklin ^[1]; Zusin, Dmitriy ^[1]; Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi ^[1]; Gentry, Christian ^[1]; Turgut, Emrah ^[1]; Ellis, Jennifer L. ^[1]; Chen, Ming-Chang ^[4]; Fleischer, Avner ^[5]; Cohen, Oren ^[2]; Kapteyn, Henry C. ^[1]; Murnane, Margaret M. ^[1]

Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States)
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel); Ort Braude College, Karmiel (Israel)

Strong-field ionization provides fundamental insight into light-matter interactions, encoding the structure of atoms and molecules on the subångström and subfemtosecond scales. Here, we explore an important regime: strong-field ionization by two-color circularly polarized laser fields. In contrast to past work using linearly polarized drivers, we probe electron trajectories that are driven in a two-dimensional plane, thus separating the tunneling angle from the rescattering angle. This allows us to make several findings. First, we observe a single-lobed electron distribution for co-rotating fields, and a three-lobed distribution for counter-rotating fields, providing experimental validation of the theoretical model explaining the generation of circularly polarized high harmonic light. Second, we discover that there is significant electron-ion rescattering using counter-rotating fields, but not with co-rotating fields. Finally, we show that the rescattered electrons are well separated from the directly ionized electrons, in striking contrast to similar low-energy structures seen with linearly polarized fields. These findings help overcome the long-standing problem of how to decouple the tunneling and rescattering steps in strong-field ionization, which will enable new dynamic probes of atomic and molecular structure.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Science Foundation (NSF); German Research Foundation (DFG); Swedish Research Council (SRC); e USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-99ER14982; DGE-1144083; GR-4234/1-1; C24540421

OSTI ID:: 1690344

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1181298

Journal Information:: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 3; ISSN 1050-2947

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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