Angular streaking in strong field ionization of chiral molecules

Abstract

We report on a chiral observable upon ionization of a chiral molecule (methyloxirane) by a strong elliptically polarized laser field: a rotation of the photoelectron momentum distribution, which is enantiosensitive and forward/backward asymmetric. We explain this forward/backward asymmetric rotation of the count maxima to be equivalent to a dependence of the photoelectron circular dichroism on the electron emission angle in the plane of polarization.