Inducing elliptically polarized high-order harmonics from aligned molecules with linearly polarized femtosecond pulses

Details Inducing elliptically polarized high-order harmonics from aligned molecules with linearly polarized femtosecond pulses Inducing elliptically polarized high-order harmonics from aligned molecules with linearly polarized femtosecond pulses

2009-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1431v2

Phys. Rev. A 81, 013409 (2010)

Physics

Atomic Physics

6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.81.013409

A recent paper reported elliptically polarized high-order harmonics from aligned N$_2$ using a linearly polarized driving field [X. Zhou \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{102}, 073902 (2009)]. This observation cannot be explained in the standard treatment of the Lewenstein model and has been ascribed to many-electron effects or the influence of the Coulomb force on the continuum electron. We show that non-vanishing ellipticity naturally appears within the Lewenstein model when using a multi-center stationary phase method for treating the dynamics of the continuum electron. The reason for this is the appearance of additional contributions, that can be interpreted as quantum orbits in which the active electron is ionized at one atomic center within the molecule and recombines at another. The associated exchange harmonics are responsible for the non-vanishing ellipticity and result from a correlation between the ionization site and the recombination site in high-order harmonic generation.

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