Probing polar molecules with high harmonic spectroscopy.

Autor: Frumker E; Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, University of Ottawa and National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada. eugene.frumker@mpq.mpg.de, Kajumba N, Bertrand JB, Wörner HJ, Hebeisen CT, Hockett P, Spanner M, Patchkovskii S, Paulus GG, Villeneuve DM, Naumov A, Corkum PB
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2012 Dec 07; Vol. 109 (23), pp. 233904. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Dec 04.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.233904
Abstrakt: We bring the methodology of orienting polar molecules together with the phase sensitivity of high harmonic spectroscopy to experimentally compare the phase difference of attosecond bursts of radiation emitted upon electron recollision from different ends of a polar molecule. This phase difference has an impact on harmonics from aligned polar molecules, suppressing emission from the molecules parallel to the driving laser field while favoring the perpendicular ones. For oriented molecules, we measure the amplitude ratio of even to odd harmonics produced when intense light irradiates CO molecules and determine the degree of orientation and the phase difference of attosecond bursts using molecular frame ionization and recombination amplitudes. The sensitivity of the high harmonic spectrum to subtle phase differences in the emitted radiation makes it a detailed probe of polar molecules and will drive major advances in the theory of high harmonic generation.
Databáze: MEDLINE