The temporal dynamics of double ionization of H2 has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically with few-cycle laser pulses. The main observables are the proton spectra associated to the H^+ + H^+ fragmentation channel. The model is based on the time-dependent Schrödinger equation and treats on the same level the electronic and nuclear coordinates. Therefore it allows to follow the ultrafast nuclear dynamics as a function of the laser pulse duration, carrier-envelope phase offset and peak intensity. We mainly report results in the sequential double ionization regime above 2 10^{14} W/cm^2. The proton spectra are shifted to higher energies as the pulse duration is reduced from 40fs down to 10fs. The good agreement between the model predictions and the experimental data at 10fs permits a theoretical study with pulse durations down to a few femtoseconds. We demonstrate the very fast nuclear dynamics of the H2^+ ion for a pulse duration as short as 1fs between the two ionization events giving respectively H2^+ from H2 and H^+ + H^+ from H2^+. Carrier-envelope phase offset only plays a significant role for pulse durations shorter than 4fs. At 10fs, the laser intensity dependence of the proton spectra is fairly well reproduced by the model.
Ionization of molecular hydrogen and deuterium by a frequency-doubled Ti:sapphire laser pulses
在$(2-13)\times10^{13} $ W cm $^{-2}$的强度范围内,对平行或垂直于线偏振激光脉冲(400 nm)的氢或氘分子的强场单电离进行了理论研究.该研究是基于非微扰处理,解决了完整的时间依赖的薛定谔方程的相关电子内固定的核和偶极子近似。各种核间分离的结果被用来获得分子氢和氘在其基态振动态的电离产额。一个原子模型是用来识别的影响,内在的双原子两中心字符的问题。
Observation of multiple ionization pathways for OCS in an intense laser field resolved by three-dimensional covariance mapping and visualized by hierarchical ionization topology