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Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Applications of Elliptically Polarized, Few-Cycle Attosecond Pulses
| Date | Fr, 20.05.2016 | |
| Time | 16.45 | |
| Speaker | Prof. Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | |
| Location | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg Campus, HCI J6 | |
| Program | Use of elliptically-polarized light opens the possibility of investigating effects that are not accessible with linearly-polarized pulses. This talk presents two new physical effects that are predicted for ionization of the helium atom by few-cycle, elliptically polarized attosecond pulses. For double ionization of He by an intense elliptically polarized attosecond pulse, we predict a nonlinear dichroic effect (i.e., the difference of the two-electron angular distributions in the polarization plane for opposite helicities of the ionizing pulse) that is sensitive to the carrier-envelope phase, ellipticity, peak intensity I, and temporal duration of the pulse [1]. For single ionization of He by two oppositely circularly polarized, time-delayed attosecond pulses we predict that the photoelectron momentum distributions in the polarization plane have helical vortex structures that are exquisitely sensitive to the time-delay between the pulses, their relative phase, and their handedness [2]. Both of these effects [1, 2] manifest the ability to control the angular distributions of the ionized electrons by means of the attosecond pulse parameters. Our predictions are obtained numerically by solving the two-electron time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the case of elliptically polarized attosecond pulses. They are interpreted analytically by means of perturbation theory analyses of the two ionization processes [1, 2]. *This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Award No. DE-FG03-96ER14646. [1] J.M. Ngoko Djiokap, N.L. Manakov, A.V. Meremianin, S.X. Hu, L.B. Madsen, and A.F. Starace, “Nonlinear dichroism in back-to-back double ionization of He by an intense elliptically-polarized few-cycle XUV pulse,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223002 (2014). [2] J.M. Ngoko Djiokap, S.X. Hu, L.B. Madsen, N.L. Manakov, A.V. Meremianin, and A.F. Starace, “Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113004 (2015). |
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| Link | Anthony Starace | |
