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Original language | English |
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Article number | 023408 |
Journal | Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 13 Feb 2013 |
Abstract
We extend the ideas of wave-packet interferometry to implement the algorithm of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) for characterizing the amplitude and phase of electron wave packets. Single-photon ionization by an attosecond pulse launches an electron wave packet in the continuum. Ionization by a train of two attosecond pulses in the presence of a moderate infrared pulse creates an interferogram in the final photoelectron momentum distribution. From the interferogram, the complex electron wave function can be reconstructed. If the pulses are well characterized, the amplitude and phase of the bound-free dipole matrix element can be reconstructed over a wide energy range. This is demonstrated by application of the retrieval method to momentum distributions obtained by numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The case of Coulombic potentials requires appropriate treatment of the laser-Coulomb coupled dynamics.
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- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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T1 - Retrieval of the amplitude and phase of the dipole matrix element by attosecond electron-wave-packet interferometry
AU - Chacon, Alexis
AU - Lein, Manfred
AU - Ruiz, Camilo
N1 - Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/2/13
Y1 - 2013/2/13
N2 - We extend the ideas of wave-packet interferometry to implement the algorithm of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) for characterizing the amplitude and phase of electron wave packets. Single-photon ionization by an attosecond pulse launches an electron wave packet in the continuum. Ionization by a train of two attosecond pulses in the presence of a moderate infrared pulse creates an interferogram in the final photoelectron momentum distribution. From the interferogram, the complex electron wave function can be reconstructed. If the pulses are well characterized, the amplitude and phase of the bound-free dipole matrix element can be reconstructed over a wide energy range. This is demonstrated by application of the retrieval method to momentum distributions obtained by numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The case of Coulombic potentials requires appropriate treatment of the laser-Coulomb coupled dynamics.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.023408
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.023408
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JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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