Tunneling ionization in ultrashort laser pulses: edge-effect and remedy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07589v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:23:01 GMT
• Title: Tunneling ionization in ultrashort laser pulses: edge-effect and remedy
• Authors: M. Klaiber and Q. Z. Lv and K. Z. Hatsagortsyan and C. H. Keitel
• Abstract summary: Tunneling ionization of an atom in ultrashort laser pulses is considered. Photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) shows an edge-effect because of the photoelectron diffraction by the time-slit of the pulse.
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• Abstract: Tunneling ionization of an atom in ultrashort laser pulses is considered. When the driving laser pulse is switched-on and -off with a steep slope, the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) shows an edge-effect because of the photoelectron diffraction by the time-slit of the pulse. The trivial diffraction pattern of the edge effect consisting of fast oscillations in the PMD disguises in the deep nonadiabatic regime the physically more interesting features in the spectrum which originate from the photoelectron dynamics. We point out the precise conditions how to avoid this scenario experimentally and if unavoidable in theory we put forward an efficient method to remove the edge-effect in the PMD. This allows to highlight the nonadiabatic dynamical features of the PMD, which is indispensable for their further investigation in complex computationally demanding scenarios. The method is firstly demonstrated on a one-dimensional problem, and further applied in three-dimensions for the attoclock. The method is validated by a comparison of analytical results via the strong-field approximation with numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation.

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