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Laser streaking of dissociating D2+ in a strong midinfrared laser pulse
- Source :
- Physical Review A. 103
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
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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