Carrier-envelope phase effects in above-threshold ionization of atomic hydrogen

W C Wallace; M G Pullen; D E Laban; O Ghafur; Han Xu; A J Palmer; G F Hanne; K Bartschat; A N Grum-Grzhimailo; H M Quiney; I V Litvinyuk; R T Sang; D Kielpinski

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/033002

New Journal of Physics (Jan 2013)

Carrier-envelope phase effects in above-threshold ionization of atomic hydrogen

W C Wallace,
M G Pullen,
D E Laban,
O Ghafur,
Han Xu,
A J Palmer,
G F Hanne,
K Bartschat,
A N Grum-Grzhimailo,
H M Quiney,
I V Litvinyuk,
R T Sang,
D Kielpinski

Affiliations

W C Wallace: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
M G Pullen: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
D E Laban: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
O Ghafur: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
Han Xu: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
A J Palmer: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
G F Hanne: Physikalisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität , D-48149 Münster, Germany
K Bartschat: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University , Des Moines, IA 50311, USA
A N Grum-Grzhimailo: Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow 119234, Russia
H M Quiney: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, University of Melbourne , Melbourne 3010, Victoria, Australia
I V Litvinyuk: Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
R T Sang: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia
D Kielpinski: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia; Australian Attosecond Science Facility and Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University , Nathan 4111, Queensland, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/033002
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 3
p. 033002

Abstract

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Recent experiments in ultrafast physics have established the importance of above-threshold ionization (ATI) experiments in measuring and controlling the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of few-cycle laser pulses. We have performed an investigation of atomic hydrogen subjected to intense CEP-stable few-cycle laser pulses. The experimental ATI spectra have been compared to predictions from an ab initio numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in three dimensions. Good agreement between experiment and theory has been achieved without using any free fit parameters. Our results provide an important step towards obtaining calibrated reference data for a direct comparison of ATI electron yields for a range of gas species and experimental conditions.

Published in New Journal of Physics

ISSN: 1367-2630 (Online)
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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