• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 1, 010201 (2020)
Zhilei Xiao1、2, Wei Quan1、*, Songpo Xu1、2, Shaogang Yu1、2, Yanlan Wang1, Meng Zhao1、2, Mingzheng Wei1, Yu Zhou1、2, Xuanyang Lai1, Jing Chen3、4、**, and Xiaojun Liu1、***
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 4Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202018.010201 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhilei Xiao, Wei Quan, Songpo Xu, Shaogang Yu, Yanlan Wang, Meng Zhao, Mingzheng Wei, Yu Zhou, Xuanyang Lai, Jing Chen, Xiaojun Liu. Coulomb potential influence in the attoclock experimental scheme[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(1): 010201 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Coulomb potential may induce a significant angular offset to the two-dimensional photoelectron momentum distributions for atoms subject to strong elliptically polarized laser fields. In the attoclock experiment, this offset usually cannot be easily disentangled from the contribution of tunneling delay and poses a main obstacle to the precise measurement of tunneling delay. Based on semiclassical calculations, here, we propose a method to extract the equivalent temporal offset induced solely by Coulomb potential (TOCP) in an attoclock experiment. Our calculations indicate that, at constant laser intensity, the TOCP shows distinctive wavelength dependence laws for different model atoms, and the ratio of the target atom’s TOCP to that of H becomes insensitive to wavelength and linearly proportional to (2Ip) 3/2, where Ip is the ionization potential of the target atom. This wavelength and Ip dependence of TOCP can be further applied to extract the Coulomb potential influence. Our work paves the way for an accurate measurement of the tunneling delay in the tunneling ionization of atoms subject to intense elliptically polarized laser fields.
    V=Zeffr,(1)

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    2rt2=E(t)V,(2)

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    a(t)={sin2(πt6T),t6T0,t>6T,(3)

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    2ϕη2+(Ip2+12η+14η2+14Eη)ϕ=0,(4)

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    w(1)¯=vper(2Ip)12π|E|exp[vper2(2Ip)12/|E|],(5)

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    Δt=arctan(εtanΔθ)/ω0,(6)

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    Zhilei Xiao, Wei Quan, Songpo Xu, Shaogang Yu, Yanlan Wang, Meng Zhao, Mingzheng Wei, Yu Zhou, Xuanyang Lai, Jing Chen, Xiaojun Liu. Coulomb potential influence in the attoclock experimental scheme[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(1): 010201
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