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Laser streaking of dissociating D2+ in a strong midinfrared laser pulse

Authors :
Feng He
Liang Xu
Source :
Physical Review A. 103
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2021.

Abstract

Laser streaking of photoelectrons has been a well-established technique to extract ultrafast information. In analogy to the streaking of photoelectrons, in this paper, we study the laser streaking of nuclei by numerically simulating the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations of ${\mathrm{D}}_{2}^{+}$ in strong laser fields. We first demonstrate the nuclear streaking, where the dissociating wave packet excited by an isolated attosecond pulse and propagating on molecular potential surfaces is streaked by a strong midinfrared laser pulse. Subsequently, we use an attosecond pulse train composing two successive attosecond pulses to initiate the dissociation of ${\mathrm{D}}_{2}^{+}$. Depending on the time delay between the attosecond pulse train and the midinfrared laser pulse, the streaked nuclear wave packets show a novel delay-dependent interference pattern. By tracing the wave-packet evolution in the adiabatic presentation, the complicated dissociation pathways are revealed. Based on the streaked nuclear pattern, one may conceive a strategy to probe the real-time nuclear streaking process and extract instantaneous dynamics information experimentally.

Details

ISSN :
24699934 and 24699926
Volume :
103
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review A
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........b5776138f5bd06a76c2dd472925262e6
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.063108