Strong-Field Photoelectron Interferometry with Near-Single-Cycle Yb Lasers
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| author | Hasan, Mahmudul Tran, Phi-Hung Gao, Jingsong Hoang, Van-Hung Tsai, Ming-Shian Chen, Ming-Chang Thumm, Uwe Cocke, Charles Lewis Lin, Chii-Dong Le, Anh-Thu Han, and Meng |
| author_facet | Hasan, Mahmudul Tran, Phi-Hung Gao, Jingsong Hoang, Van-Hung Tsai, Ming-Shian Chen, Ming-Chang Thumm, Uwe Cocke, Charles Lewis Lin, Chii-Dong Le, Anh-Thu Han, and Meng |
| contents | The concept of using photoelectron interferometry in short laser fields to probe electron dynamics and target structures was introduced more than two decades ago. However, the quality of experimental data has remained insufficient for quantitative analysis, largely due to the instability of few-cycle Ti:Sa laser pulses, the current workhorse of short pulses. Here, we report the first systematic strong-field ionization experiments performed with industrial-grade, carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) stabilized, near-single-cycle Yb lasers. By measuring photoelectron momentum distributions in the direct-ionization regime, we show that single-cycle cosine-shaped pulses can separate and enhance both spider-leg and fishbone holographic structures. The spider-leg structure enables extraction of the electron scattering phase from the Ar atomic potential-information typically accessible only through attosecond metrology, while the fishbone structure reveals the orbital-parity contrast between Ar atoms and nitrogen molecules. Our measurements are quantitatively reproduced by both semiclassical Herman-Kluk-propagator and \textit{ab initio} simulations, paving the way for precision studies of electron-molecule scattering with widely accessible industrial-grade lasers. |
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| spellingShingle | Strong-Field Photoelectron Interferometry with Near-Single-Cycle Yb Lasers Hasan, Mahmudul Tran, Phi-Hung Gao, Jingsong Hoang, Van-Hung Tsai, Ming-Shian Chen, Ming-Chang Thumm, Uwe Cocke, Charles Lewis Lin, Chii-Dong Le, Anh-Thu Han, and Meng Atomic Physics The concept of using photoelectron interferometry in short laser fields to probe electron dynamics and target structures was introduced more than two decades ago. However, the quality of experimental data has remained insufficient for quantitative analysis, largely due to the instability of few-cycle Ti:Sa laser pulses, the current workhorse of short pulses. Here, we report the first systematic strong-field ionization experiments performed with industrial-grade, carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) stabilized, near-single-cycle Yb lasers. By measuring photoelectron momentum distributions in the direct-ionization regime, we show that single-cycle cosine-shaped pulses can separate and enhance both spider-leg and fishbone holographic structures. The spider-leg structure enables extraction of the electron scattering phase from the Ar atomic potential-information typically accessible only through attosecond metrology, while the fishbone structure reveals the orbital-parity contrast between Ar atoms and nitrogen molecules. Our measurements are quantitatively reproduced by both semiclassical Herman-Kluk-propagator and \textit{ab initio} simulations, paving the way for precision studies of electron-molecule scattering with widely accessible industrial-grade lasers. |
| title | Strong-Field Photoelectron Interferometry with Near-Single-Cycle Yb Lasers |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01866 |