Classical interpretation for the influence of XUV pulse width on the streaking time delay and the oscillation amplitude of the momentum shift

Abstract

We numerically investigate both the streaking time delay and the oscillation amplitude of the momentum shift of the photoelectron and justify them physically by developing a classical model based on the weak field approximation. The streaking time delay is insensitive to the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulse duration, while the oscillation amplitude obviously reduces as the XUV duration increases. This XUV duration dependence is attributed to the ionization probability of electron at initial times other than the peak of the XUV pulse. We propagate the classical electron trajectories originating at different initial times in the coupled Coulomb-laser (IR) potential and average the momentum shift for each trajectory over the width of the XUV pulse. By extracting the streaking time delay and the oscillation amplitude from this averaged momentum shift, the classical model results and the time-dependent Schrödinger equation results are found to be in good agreement. Both the insensitivity of the streaking time delay and the sensitivity of the oscillation amplitude on the XUV pulse width are well explained by our classical model considering initial ionization time average. Analytical estimation for the oscillation amplitude is obtained from the model of initial ionization time average.

Keywords

• attosecond streaking
• weak field approximation
• oscillation amplitude
• XUV width effect