Broadband-Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation by Two-Color Elliptically Polarized Laser Pulses

We numerically solve the two-dimensional Schrödinger equation and investigate isolated attosecond pulse generation by combining a left and a right elliptically polarized pulse together. It is found that the plateau of the harmonic spectra can be extended and the quantum paths can be controlled by adjusting ellipticity. A broadband width of about 220 eV is generated for the case that ellipticity equals 0.3, and time-frequency time–frequency analysis shows that only one long quantum path contributes to high-order harmonic generation. By superposing a bandwidth of 60 eV near the cutoff of the harmonic plateau, an attosecond pulse with the duration of about 62 as could be generated.     

High-Order-Harmonic Generation from a Relativistic Circularly Polarized Laser Interacting with Over-Dense Plasma Grating

The simple surface current model is extended to study the generation of high-order harmonics for a relativistic circularly polarized laser pulse interacting with a plasma grating surface. Both exact relativistic electron dynamics and optical interference of surface periodic structure are considered. It is found that high order harmonics in the specular direction are obviously suppressed whereas the harmonics of the grating periodicity are strongly enhanced and folded into small solid angles with respect to the surface direction. The conversion efficiency of certain harmonics is five orders of magnitude higher than that of the planar target cases. It provides an effective approach to generate a coherent radiation within the so-called ‘water window' while maintaining high conversion efficiency and narrow angle spread.     

采用附加共振高频场提高强场高次谐波的产生效率

提高高次谐波效率一直是强场物理研究中的一个重要课题,对此人们采取了很多方法,如采用双色场,实现相位匹配,附加一个强电场或强磁场等。本文在研究双色场高次谐波的过程中,发现原子的能级结构对于高次谐波的产生效率有极大的影响,据此提出利用附加共振高频场来大幅度提高高次谐波的产生效率。     

The Photoionization of Atomic Hydrogen in an Intense Circularly Polarized Laser Field

We calculate nonperturbatively the irfluence of a strong circularly polarized laser beam on the hydrogen atom energy levels by making use of the time-independent formalism proposed by one of us. The photoionization cross section of the hydrogen atom irradiated by this laser beam and the angular distribution of photoelectrons are also calculated. From the numerical results we clearly see the intensity dependence of the whole photoionization process,including the intensity dependence of the photoelectron energies.     

The Photoionization of Atomic Hydrogen in an Intense Circularly Polarized Laser Field

We calculate nonperturbatively the irfluence of a strong circularly polarized laser beam on the hydrogen atom energy levels by making use of the time-independent formalism proposed by one of us. The photoionization cross section of the hydrogen atom irradiated by this laser beam and the angular distribution of photoelectrons are also calculated. From the numerical results we clearly see the intensity dependence of the whole photoionization process,including the intensity dependence of the photoelectron energies.     

Ionization Problem for Hydrogen Atom in Intense Circularly Polarized Laser Field Revisited

Ionization rate for circular polarization laser field is reformulated in length gauge. The Volkov state or the Coulomb-correctsd Volkov one is served at the final wavefunction and would lead to that the ionization rate in length gauge is closer to the experimental data than the corresponding result in velocity gauge. It is also found that the ionization rate as a function of laser intensity has nevertheless the stabilization effect, although in the sense more weakly in length gauge than in velocity gauge, when the field is to be comparable or exceeds to the atomic binding field.     

Intensity Dependence of the Photoelectric Effect Induced by a Circularly Polarized Laser Beam

The intensity dependence of the energy and the angular distribution for photoelectrons ejected by a circularly polarized laser beam is derived. The energy shift is similar to that of a combined Zeeman-Stark effect in magnetic and electric fields perpendicular to each other.     

Energetic AT1 Spectra of He in Circularly Polarized Laser

A new analytic model for ATIspectra of He in circularly polarized laser is proposed.The model gives a way to describe the effects of the final state Coulomb interaction and the joint interaction of the atomic potential and laser field. The experimental spectra by Mohideen et al. can be quite well described. The peak intensity contradiction, which appeared in previous literatures, can be considerably eliminated.     

Generation of Near-Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulse with Tunable Helicity by Unidirectionally Rotating Laser Field

A method to produce circularly polarized attosecond pulses with tunable helicity from CO molecule by using an unidirectionally rotating laser field is proposed. It is found that broadband harmonic supercontinuum with circular polarization can be generated from the oriented CO molecule. This enables the production sub-100 attosecond isolated pulse with the ellipticity as high as 0.9 at the macroscopic level. Moreover, the helicity of the generated high-order harmonics and the attosecond pulse can be tuned by adjusting the orientation of the CO molecule. This method will be beneficial for the studies on chiral-specific dynamics and magnetic circular dichroism on an attosecond time scale.     

Extreme Ultraviolet Sources Generation by Using the Two-Color Multi-Cycle Weak Inhomogeneous Field

An efficient method for attosecond extreme ultraviolet source generation under the two-color multi-cycle weak pulse has been theoretically presented by using the concept of the plasmonic field enhancement in the vicinity of metallic nanostructures. The results show that by properly choosing the inhomogeneity of the two-color multi-cycle(20 fs) weak pulse(1013W/cm2), not only the harmonic cutoff has been extended, resulting in a broadband XUV continuum, but also the single short quantum path has been selected to contribute to the harmonic. As a result, two isolated XUV pulses with durations of 68 as and 66 as can be obtained.     

Extension of Harmonic Cutoff and Generation of Isolated Sub-30 as Pulse in a Two-Color Chirped Laser Field

We theoretically investigate high-order harmonic and isolated attosecond pulse generation in a two-color chirped laser field,which is synthesized by a 9 fs/800 nm fundamental chirped pulse and a 9 fs/1600 nm controlling chirped pulse.Our numerical results show that,by using this method,not only is the harmonic cutoff significantly extended to the 948th order harmonic,but also the bandwidth of the supercontinuum spectrum is effectively broadened to about 1342 eV.In addition,due to the introduction of the chirp,the long quantum path is suppressed and only the short one is selected,and then an isolated 28 as pulse with a bandwidth of 155 eV is obtained directly.     

Decoherence Effects of Terahertz Generation in Solids under Two-Color Femtosecond Laser Fields

We theoretically investigate terahertz emission from solid materials pumped by intense two-color femtosecond laser field in the presence of decoherence effects.Quantum-mechanical simulations are based on the length gauge semiconductor Bloch equations describing the optical excitation and decoherence with phenomenological dephasing and depopulation times.Contributions of interband and intraband mechanisms are identified in time domain,and the latter has dominated THz generation in solid-state sys...     

Enhancement of High-Order Harmonic Emission and Isolated 7-as Pulse Generation with Rydberg Atoms by Using a Two-Color Laser Field

An efficient method to enhance the harmonic efficiency and generate an isolated attosecond pulse is proposed by preparing the initial state as a coherent superposition of the ground state and a Rydberg state in a two-color laser field. By numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, we found that for the superposition state with the optimal Rydberg state, not only is the harmonic efficiency enhanced significantly, but also the width of the continuous spectrum is extended. The ionization probability and the time-frequency distribution of the harmonic spectrum are also calculated to understand the physical origin of the enhancement of the harmonic spectrum. In addition, by adjusting the parameter of the laser pulse, a supercontinuum with both higher conversion efficiency and slighter modulation can be observed. As a result, an isolated 7-as pulse with a bandwidth of 495 eV can be obtained after phase compensation.     

Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Free Complex Molecules in a Constant Magnetic Field

It is shown that the magnetic fieldinduced optical activity in the luminescence of complex molecules in vapors in the presence of rotational anisotropy in the ensemble of luminescent molecules provides information also on the intramolecular orientation of the initiating dipole moments of transitions, including borrowed ones. The relationships between the rotational force of the optical activity and this orientation in the case of anisotropy induced by a linearly polarized exciting light are obtained.     

二能级三维氢原子模型中强激光场的谐波发射

在强激光场中三维二能级氢原子模型的基础上, 对其含时Schr\"{o}dinger方程进行了非微扰的数值求解, 得到了激光场的高次谐波谱.     

群体粒子场圆偏入射光侧向散射的角分布实验研究(英文)

对圆偏振光入射到群体粒子场时侧向散射光随角度分布的特性进行了实验研究,散射介质为直径0.065μm和1.24μm的粒子与过滤的蒸馏水所构成的不同浓度的悬浮液。实验结果表明,粒子侧向散射光的各种成分在探测平面内相对散射角度始终呈现对称分布的规律,而随着粒子尺寸、浓度、探测深度的变化,散射光强也相应出现变化,但变化不明显。     

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.     

正交双色场中氢分子非次序双电离的研究

利用经典系综模型,研究了正交双色场作用下氢分子非次序双电离中双电离电子的相关特性.结果表明,双电离电子相关动量谱强烈地依赖于正交双色场的相对相位.通过改变正交双色场的相对相位,相关动量可以从反相关模式转变为相关模式.向后分析表明,相关电子动量谱对双色场相对相位的依赖关系起源于碰撞过程中碰撞电子碰撞角和碰撞动量对相对相位...     

椭圆偏振强激光场中准直的乙炔分子的高次谐波发射

We perform an experimental study on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of aligned acetylene molecules induced by a 35-fs 800-nm strong laser field, by using a home-built HHG spectrometer. It is observed that the molecular HHG probability declines with increasing the laser ellipticity, which is in consistence with the deduction from the well-known tunneling-plus-rescattering scenario. By introducing a weak femtosecond laser pulse to nonadiabatically align the molecules, we investigated the molecular orbital effect on the HHG in both linearly and elliptically polarized driving laser fields. The results show that the harmonic intensity is maximum for the molecular axis aligned perpendicularly to the laser electric field. It indicates that both the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) and HOMO-1 contribute to the strong-field HHG of acetylene molecules. Our study should pave the way for understanding the interaction of molecules with ultrafast strong laser fields.