Correlation dynamics between electrons and ions in the fragmentation of D$_2$ molecules by short laser pulses

Details Correlation dynamics between electrons and ions in the fragmentation of D$_2$ molecules by short laser pulses Correlation dynamics between electrons and ions in the fragmentation of D$_2$ molecules by short laser pulses

2003-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0307084v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

13 pages with 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043412

We studied the recollision dynamics between the electrons and D$_2^+$ ions following the tunneling ionization of D$_2$ molecules in an intense short pulse laser field. The returning electron collisionally excites the D$_2^+$ ion to excited electronic states from there D$_2^+$ can dissociate or be further ionized by the laser field, resulting in D$^+$ + D or D$^+$ + D$^+$, respectively. We modeled the fragmentation dynamics and calculated the resulting kinetic energy spectrum of D$^+$ to compare with recent experiments. Since the recollision time is locked to the tunneling ionization time which occurs only within fraction of an optical cycle, the peaks in the D$^+$ kinetic energy spectra provides a measure of the time when the recollision occurs. This collision dynamics forms the basis of the molecular clock where the clock can be read with attosecond precision, as first proposed by Corkum and coworkers. By analyzing each of the elementary processes leading to the fragmentation quantitatively, we identified how the molecular clock is to be read from the measured kinetic energy spectra of D$^+$ and what laser parameters be used in order to measure the clock more accurately.

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