Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields
Abstract
High-harmonic generation driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly polarized laser fields was recently demonstrated experimentally as a breakthrough source of bright, coherent, circularly polarized beams in the extreme ultraviolet and soft-x-ray regions. However, the conditions for optimizing the single-atom yield are significantly more complex than for linearly polarized driving lasers and are not fully understood. Here we present a comprehensive study of strong-field ionization—the complementary process to high-harmonic generation—driven by two-color circularly polarized fields. We uncover the conditions that lead to enhanced electron-ion rescattering, which should correspond to the highest single-atom harmonic flux. Using a velocity map imaging photoelectron spectrometer and tomographic reconstruction techniques, we record three-dimensional photoelectron distributions resulting from the strong-field ionization of argon atoms across a broad range of driving laser intensity ratios. In combination with analytical predictions and advanced numerical simulations, we show that “hard” electron-ion rescattering is optimized when the second-harmonic field has an intensity approximately four times higher than that of the fundamental driving field. We also investigate electron-ion rescattering with co-rotating fields, and find that rescattering is significantly suppressed when compared with counter-rotating fields.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
- Univ. of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Max-Born-Inst., Berlin (Germany)
- Max-Born-Inst., Berlin (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1690340
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1252126; OSTI ID: 1690342
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-99ER14982; DGE-1144083; C24540421
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; electron & positron scattering; multiphoton or tunneling ionization & excitation; ultrashort pulses; high-harmonic generation
Citation Formats
Mancuso, Christopher A., Hickstein, Daniel D., Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hasović, Elvedin, Knut, Ronny, Grychtol, Patrik, Gentry, Christian, Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi, Zusin, Dmitriy, Dollar, Franklin J., Tong, Xiao-Min, Milošević, Dejan B., Becker, Wilhelm, Kapteyn, Henry C., and Murnane, Margaret M. Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.93.053406.
Mancuso, Christopher A., Hickstein, Daniel D., Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hasović, Elvedin, Knut, Ronny, Grychtol, Patrik, Gentry, Christian, Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi, Zusin, Dmitriy, Dollar, Franklin J., Tong, Xiao-Min, Milošević, Dejan B., Becker, Wilhelm, Kapteyn, Henry C., & Murnane, Margaret M. Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.93.053406
Mancuso, Christopher A., Hickstein, Daniel D., Dorney, Kevin M., Ellis, Jennifer L., Hasović, Elvedin, Knut, Ronny, Grychtol, Patrik, Gentry, Christian, Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi, Zusin, Dmitriy, Dollar, Franklin J., Tong, Xiao-Min, Milošević, Dejan B., Becker, Wilhelm, Kapteyn, Henry C., and Murnane, Margaret M. Mon .
"Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.93.053406. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1690340.
@article{osti_1690340,
title = {Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields},
author = {Mancuso, Christopher A. and Hickstein, Daniel D. and Dorney, Kevin M. and Ellis, Jennifer L. and Hasović, Elvedin and Knut, Ronny and Grychtol, Patrik and Gentry, Christian and Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi and Zusin, Dmitriy and Dollar, Franklin J. and Tong, Xiao-Min and Milošević, Dejan B. and Becker, Wilhelm and Kapteyn, Henry C. and Murnane, Margaret M.},
abstractNote = {High-harmonic generation driven by two-color counter-rotating circularly polarized laser fields was recently demonstrated experimentally as a breakthrough source of bright, coherent, circularly polarized beams in the extreme ultraviolet and soft-x-ray regions. However, the conditions for optimizing the single-atom yield are significantly more complex than for linearly polarized driving lasers and are not fully understood. Here we present a comprehensive study of strong-field ionization—the complementary process to high-harmonic generation—driven by two-color circularly polarized fields. We uncover the conditions that lead to enhanced electron-ion rescattering, which should correspond to the highest single-atom harmonic flux. Using a velocity map imaging photoelectron spectrometer and tomographic reconstruction techniques, we record three-dimensional photoelectron distributions resulting from the strong-field ionization of argon atoms across a broad range of driving laser intensity ratios. In combination with analytical predictions and advanced numerical simulations, we show that “hard” electron-ion rescattering is optimized when the second-harmonic field has an intensity approximately four times higher than that of the fundamental driving field. We also investigate electron-ion rescattering with co-rotating fields, and find that rescattering is significantly suppressed when compared with counter-rotating fields.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.93.053406},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 5,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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