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Bichromatic Control of Free Electron Wave Packets

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XV

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Abstract

We report on recent developments in coherent control of ultrafast photoionization dynamics with ultrashort polarization-shaped bichromatic pulse sequences. In the experiments, a novel pulse shaping scheme for the generation of Bichromatic Carrier-Envelope phase-stable Polarization-tailored Supercontinuum (BiCEPS) fields is combined with high-resolution photoelectron tomography to create, manipulate and reconstruct three-dimensional free electron wave packets from atomic multiphoton ionization. Examples for coherent control with bichromatic polarization-shaped pulse sequences are presented, including the generation of unusual angular momentum superposition states, carrier-envelope phase control of directional photoemission, the creation and manipulation of photoelectron vortices and electron wave packets with odd-numbered rotational symmetry as well as studies on ultrafast Rydberg and spin-orbit wave packet dynamics.

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Notes

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    For weak interactions, i.e. when perturbation theory applies, the ground state is not depleted during the light-matter interaction. The above statement holds if there are no intermediate resonances or Stark shifts.

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    Transitions with \(\Delta \ell =-1\) are possible as well. However, for simplicity we focus on the \(\Delta \ell =1\) case which, in addition, is favored by propensity rules [52].

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Kerbstadt, S., Eickhoff, K., Bayer, T., Wollenhaupt, M. (2020). Bichromatic Control of Free Electron Wave Packets. In: Yamanouchi, K., Charalambidis, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XV. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 136. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47098-2_3

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