Optical attoclock using terahertz radiation

authored by

I. Babushkin, A. J. Galan, V. Vaičaitis, A. Husakou, F. Morales, A. Demircan, J. R.C. Andrade, U. Morgner, M. Ivanov

Abstract

Dynamics of optical tunneling is one of the central topics of attosecond science. The most prominent method to access attosecond-long delays in course of electron ionization is known as attoclock [1,2]. In the attoclock procedure, electrons ionized by a nearly-circularly polarized optical field are detected by a remote detector. The electric field of the driver pulse plays a role of a clock hand rotating with the optical frequency. Ionization delays lead to an angular shift of the electronic distribution at the detector. However, to access ionization dynamics one needs to 'unwind' the electron path from the detector back to the core [3], making the physical insight rather cumbersome.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Quantum Optics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT)

External Organisation(s)

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy im Forschungsbund Berlin e.V. (MBI)
Vilnius University

Type

Conference contribution

No. of pages

1

Publication date

2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Spectroscopy, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Networks and Communications

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872211 (Access: Closed)