Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2007-01-22
Phys. Rev. A, vol. 76, 013414 (2007)
Physics
Atomic Physics
13 pages, 14 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013414
We report theoretical investigations of the tomographic procedure suggested by Itatani {\it et al.} [Nature, {\bf 432} 867 (2004)] for reconstructing highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) using high-order harmonic generation (HHG). Using the limited range of harmonics from the plateau region, we found that under the most favorable assumptions, it is still very difficult to obtain accurate HOMO wavefunction, but the symmetry of the HOMO and the internuclear separation between the atoms can be accurately extracted, especially when lasers of longer wavelengths are used to generate the HHG. We also considered the possible removal or relaxation of the approximations used in the tomographic method in actual applications. We suggest that for chemical imaging, in the future it is better to use an iterative method to locate the positions of atoms in the molecule such that the resulting HHG best fits the macroscopic HHG data, rather than by the tomographic method.
Le Anh-Thu
Le Van-Hoang
Lin Devon C.
Xie Rui-Hua
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