飞秒脉冲激光作用下电子振荡导致的辐射空间分布特性

 采用单电子模型研究了不同偏振、不同强度飞秒脉冲激光作用下电子振荡导致的辐射的空间分布特性。研究发现:随着激光强度的增加,对圆偏振激光脉冲,电子辐射的空间分布由全空间分布变为前向双叶型结构,而对线偏振激光脉冲,电子辐射的空间分布由类似于偶极天线辐射特性的四重对称双叶结构变为双重对称三叶型结构,这可以为实验研究电子的辐射提供空间分布的相关依据。     

Extracting the phase distribution of the electron wave packet ionized by an elliptically polarized laser pulse

We use an interferometic scheme to extract the phase distribution of the electron wave packet from above-threshold ionization in elliptically polarized laser fields. In this scheme, an electron wave packet released from a circularly polarized laser pulse acts as a reference wave and interferes with the electron wave packet ionized by a time-delayed counter-rotating elliptically polarized laser field. The generated vortex-shaped interference pattern in the photoelectron momentum distribution enables us to extract the phase distribution of the electron wave packet in the elliptically polarized laser pulse with high precision. By artificially screening the ionic potential at different ranges when solving the time-dependent Schördinger equation, we find that the angle-dependent phase distribution of the electron wave packet in the elliptically polarized laser field shows an obvious angular shift as compared to the strong-field approximation, whose value is the same as the attoclock shift. We also show that the amplitude of the angle-dependent phase distribution is sensitive to the ellipticity of the laser pulse, providing an alternative way to precisely calibrate the laser ellipticity in the attoclock measurement.     

Laser-induced Alignment and Coulomb Explosion of CO2

实验研究了CO₂分子在飞秒强激光脉冲作用下的动力学过程,包括分子取向,隧穿电离和库仑爆炸,激光强度从1×10¹³W/cm²变化到6×10¹⁴W/cm². 当激光强度小于分子的电离阈值时,CO₂分子的非绝热转动激发形成一个相干转动波包,波包演化导致分子沿激光电场方向取向. 激光脉冲结束后,分子取向可以周期性地再现,利用另一束激光可以对取向结构进一步进行修饰. 当激光强度大于分子     

不同偏振飞秒激光经块状材料传输后的脉宽压缩

实验研究了线偏振和圆偏振状态下的飞秒强激光脉冲在块状材料中的传输过程。不同偏振的激光脉冲在传输过程中得到了不同程度的光谱展宽,经色散补偿后,脉冲时域宽度均得到了压缩。详细分析了压缩脉冲的脉宽以及啁啾情况与入射激光脉冲能量之间的关系,比较了飞秒激光在线偏振及圆偏振情况下的不同压缩效果。在线偏振入射光情况下得到了最短21fs的压缩脉冲宽度,在圆偏振情况下得到的最短脉冲宽度为22fs。实验结果表明,这种光谱展宽与色散补偿方式对圆偏振光同样适用,而且圆偏振的入射激光将更有利于对更高能量的脉冲进行压缩。在色散补偿量相同的情况下,压缩效果随入射脉冲能量变化的规律符合理论估计。     

Control of molecular rotation with a chiral train of ultrashort pulses

Trains of ultrashort laser pulses separated by the time of rotational revival (typically, tens of picoseconds) have been exploited for creating ensembles of aligned molecules. In this work we introduce a chiral pulse train--a sequence of linearly polarized pulses with the polarization direction rotating from pulse to pulse by a controllable angle. The chirality of such a train, expressed through the period and direction of its polarization rotation, is used as a new control parameter for achieving selectivity and directionality of laser-induced rotational excitation. The method employs chiral trains with a large number of pulses separated on the time scale much shorter than the rotational revival (a few hundred femtosecond), enabling the use of conventional pulse shapers.     

Generation of multi-color stimulated raman emission from two-color linearly or circularly polarized pump beams

A laser beam at two different frequencies separated by 587 cm^–1 is focused into pressurized hydrogen (rotational transition energy, 587 cm^–1) to generate multi-color stimulated Raman emission. The polarization state and the pulse energy are measured for each generated emission line using linearly and circularly polarized pump beams. The effect of the polarization is discussed by using a parameter characterizing the polarizability of hydrogen and a conservation rule for the angular momentum in four-wave mixing. Many rotational lines are generated with linearly polarized pump beams through a four-wave mixing process. This is in striking contrast to the results obtained by using a single-color circularly polarized pump beam which generates only one rotational line through a conventional stimulated Raman process.     

影响单电子非线性汤姆孙散射因素的研究

应用电子汤姆孙散射的经典理论，通过理论分析和计算机模拟，研究了超短超强激光脉冲作用下电子产生的辐射脉冲的性质.计算表明，在这种情况下，电子的辐射通常以阿秒脉冲列的形式出现.讨论了不同激光场参数（包括激光强度、脉宽、初相位和偏振态）、不同电子初始状态（初始速度和位置）对辐射脉冲的时间和空间特性的影响.通常在相对论光强条件下，激光强度越大，电子辐射越强，脉宽越窄，中心频率越大，并且方向性越好；电子在线偏振激光中产生的辐射效率，比在同样强度下圆偏振激光中产生的效率更高；无论入射光是线偏振光，还是圆偏振光,辐射场呈现较复杂的偏振态, 并且它与辐射方向有关.当电子具有一定的初始能量时，通常辐射场的振幅随电子初始能量的增大而增大.不管电子的初始能量以及运动方向如何，做相对论运动的电子产生的辐射趋向于出现在靠近电子运动方向的角度区域.     

Electron vortices in photoionization by a pair of elliptically polarized attosecond pulses

The photoionization by two elliptically polarized, time delayed attosecond pulses is investigated to display a momentum distribution having the helical vortex or ring structures. The results are obtained by the strong field approximation method and analyzed by the pulse decomposition. The ellipticities and time delay of the two attosecond pulses are found to determine the rotational symmetry and the number of vortex arms. For observing these vortex patterns, the energy bandwidth and temporal duration of the attosecond pulses are ideal.     

Alignment of molecules by strong laser pulses

We review how moderately intense laser fields offer an approach to alignment of molecules [1]. In particular, molecules can be aligned along a given space fixed axis, forced to a plane, or their rotations about all three possible axes can be eliminated by choosing a linearly polarized, a circularly polarized, or an elliptically polarized alignment field, respectively. We show how molecules in the gas phase can be aligned by turning on the laser field either slowly (a few nanoseconds) or fast (a few picoseconds) with respect to the rotational period of the molecules. The role of the intensity of the laser field and the rotational temperature of the molecules is discussed. Before concluding we describe how aligned molecules enables control and selectivity in the interaction between polarized light and molecules.Received: 15 November 2002, Published online: 18 March 2003PACS: 33.15.Bh General molecular conformation and symmetry; stereochemistry - 32.80.Lg Mechanical effects of light on atoms, molecules, and ions - 33.80.Gj Diffuse spectra; predissociation, photodissociation - 33.80.Rv Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g. Rydberg states) - 34.50.Lf Chemical reactions, energy disposal, and angular distribution, as studied by atomic and molecular beams     

Photobleaching with a subnanosecond laser flash

In standard fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) applications for measuring lateral diffusion rates and adsorption/desorption kinetics of fluorescent molecules at biological or model membranes, irreversible bleaching is induced by a bright excitation flash of at least millisecond time scale. It has been presumed that the bleaching event is of a low probability and the significant bleached population that develops during the flash results from each molecule undergoing thousands of excitation/deexcitation cycles before a bleaching event occurs. In some FRAP experiments, notably polarized FRAP (PFRAP) for measuring molecular rotational diffusion rates, it is desirable to use much shorter (subnanosecond) bleaching pulses. However, subnanosecond pulses are shorter than the fluorescence lifetime, so that any fluorophore will experience at most only one visit to the excited state during the bleaching pulse. If bleaching occurs only by the same processes as in slower FRAP experiments, one would thereby expect only minimal bleaching regardless of the bleach intensity. Moreover, the ability of fast polarized pulses to imprint an anisotropic orientational pattern in the postbleach unbleached fluorophore, an ability essential for PFRAP, is not at all guaranteed, particularly if two-photon processes are involved in high-intensity short bleach pulses. In this study, bleaching depths are measured as a function of subnanosecond pulse intensity on a small labeled protein covalently immobilized on fused silica. We show that bright subnanosecond laser flashes do indeed produce significant bleaching, that both two photon effects and reversible bleaching are involved, and that polarized bleaching does produce an anisotropic orientational pattern of unbleached fluorophore. We also postulate a theoretical molecular state model which semiquantitatively accounts for the experimentally observed dependence of reversible bleaching on bleaching pulse intensity.     

Multiphoton ionization of the hydrogen atom exposed to circularly or linearly polarized laser pulses

This paper studies the multiphoton ionization of the hydrogen atom exposed to the linearly or circularly polarized laser pulses by solving the time-dependent Schr?dinger equation. It finds that the ratio of the ionization probabilities by linearly and circularly polarized laser pulses varies with the numbers of absorbing photons. With the same laser intensity, the circularly polarized laser pulse favors to ionize the atom with more ease than the linearly polarized laser pulse if only two or three photons are necessary to be absorbed. For the higher order multiphoton ionization, the linearly polarized laser pulse has the advantage over circularly polarized laser pulse to ionize the atom.     

机载激光雷达沙尘探测能量优化配置的统计研究

依据美国ANSI标准,结合1999~2004年间地基激光雷达探测的合肥地区沙尘暴消光廓线,统计分析了机载大气探测激光雷达探测沙尘时偏振532 nm垂直通道和1064 nm通道所需的最小激光能量,模拟计算了机载大气探测激光雷达探测沙尘暴时在0~12km高度范围内不同激光束发散角和激光脉冲能量比例的532 nm和1064 nm激光脉冲眼睛安全最大阈值能量。以合肥地区沙尘暴消光特性的统计结果、地面人眼安全标准和两个"瓶颈"通道的探测能力为依据提出两种激光脉冲能量配置方案。     

Comparing light-induced colloidal quasicrystals with different rotational symmetries

Quasicrystals are aperiodic structures with long-range orientational order. Unlike crystals, quasicrystals can, in principle, possess any non-crystallographic rotational symmetry. However, only a few of these rotational symmetries have been observed. By using Monte Carlo simulations of colloidal particles in laser interference patterns with quasicrystalline symmetry, we compare the onset of quasicrystalline order for different rotational symmetries in two dimensions. We find that quasicrystals with 5-, 8-, 10-, and 12-fold rotational axes can be induced with lower laser intensities than quasicrystals with other non-crystallographic rotational symmetries. We relate this finding to the number of local symmetry centers in the respective interference patterns.     

Manipulating Photoelectron Distributions for Rare Gas Atoms Ionized with Polarized Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Above-threshold ionizations of rare gas atoms excited by polarized femtosecond laser pulses are investigated. The photoelectron momentum spectra are obtained applying the strong-field approximation (SFA) theory. It is found that, distribution of the emitted photoelectrons varies with different polarizations of laser pulses. We have interpreted the relationship between the observed distribution and the laser polarization taking advantage of tunneling ionization theory and simple-man model. The polarization sensitivity indicates that one can easily manipulate the photoelectron distribution by controlling the polarization of the exciting pulse.     

Magnetic field generation in a plasma produced through atomic ionization by circularly polarized radiation

We have established the dependences of the maximum Weibel instability growth rate and the corresponding wavenumber on the degree of anisotropy in the photoelectron distribution formed through tunnel atomic ionization in the field of a circularly polarized short laser pulse. We show how the relaxation of the initial distribution of photoelectrons due to their collisions with ions affects the pattern of generation of a quasi-static magnetic field.     

Effect of Time-Dependent Ionization on Propagation of a Few-Cycle Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse in Two-Level Medium

Influence of multiphoton ionization on the propagation and spectrum of few-cycle circularly （elliptically） polarized laser pulses in an open two-level medium （two-level plus continuum model） is investigated based on the conventional two-level model proposed by Slavcheva and Hess （Phys. Rev. A 72 （2005） 053804）, and the propagation dynamics of an arbitrary elliptically polarized laser pulse is reduced into that of right and left circularly polarized laser pulses. When the laser intensity is high enough to cause ionization, there are significant impacts of ionization on the pulse reshaping and on the higher order spectral components, and the impacts for the open two-level model are different from those for the dosed two-level model.     

Elliptically polarized Terahertz emission through four-wave mixing in a two-color filament in air

We diagnosed the polarization characteristics of Terahertz emission from a two-color femtosecond laser filament when the polarizations of ω and 2ω beams are orthogonal. We discovered that the THz pulse is elliptically polarized. The generation mechanism could be through four-wave optical rectification inside the filament zone where the inversion symmetry of air is broken.     

Field-free three dimensional molecular axis alignment

We investigate strategies for field-free three dimensional molecular axis alignment using strong nonresonant laser fields under experimentally realistic conditions. Using the polarizabilites and rotational constants of an asymmetric top rotor molecule (ethene, C2H4), we consider three different methods for axis alignment of a Boltzmann distribution of rotors at 4 K. Specifically, we compare the use of impulsive kick laser pulses having both linear and elliptical polarization to the use of elliptically polarized switched laser pulses. We show that an enhanced degree of field-free three dimensional alignment of ground vibronic state molecules obtains from the use of two orthogonally polarized, time-separated laser pulses.     

超短激光脉冲驱动的Thomson散射空间分布特性

研究了超短激光脉冲驱动的Thomson散射的辐射空间分布. 发现辐射的空间分布对称性显著地依赖于超短脉冲的载波相位η₀，在η₀＝0，π时，辐射的空间分布呈现出二重或一重对称性；而在其他载波相位时，这些空间分布对称性遭到破坏. 辐射光的准直性也依赖于驱动脉冲的载波相位，在η₀＝±π/2时辐射光的准直性最好. 这些结果表明可以通过改变驱动激光脉冲的载波相位来控制辐射光的空间分布，也可以利用辐射空间分布对相位的依赖特性来测量超短激光脉冲的载波相位. 关键词： Thomson散射 空间分布 载波相位     

Selective excitation of the molecular rotational wave packet by two time-delayed laser pulses

In this paper, we investigate the control of the molecular wave packet of a linear molecule by two femtosecond laser pulses. It is shown that the odd and the even rotational wave packets created by a single laser pulse can be selectively excited by accurately controlling the time delay of another laser pulse. By inserting the peak of the second laser pulse at the position of maximum or minimum value around quarter or three quarter rotational period of the slope curve with odd (or even) rotational wave packet contribution that is created by the first laser pulse, the odd rotational wave packet can be enhanced (or suppressed) while the even rotational wave packet is suppressed (or enhanced). As a result, the molecular alignments around quarter and three quarter rotational periods can be obtained. Moreover, it is also shown that by inserting the second laser pulse around the quarter or three quarter rotational periods, the changes in the maximum degree of the molecular alignment for the odd and the even rotational wave packet contributions are consistent with their corresponding slope curves at these positions.