Abstract
The angular streaking of a close-to-circular polarized ultrahsort laser pulse provides a powerful tool and opens new possibilities for attosecond physics without the using of attosecond pulses. For strong field ionization of molecules we discuss in this review how this technique allows to uncover the intrinsic phase-dependent directional molecular bond breaking in a symmetric multicycle laser pulse (Sect. 3.2), how it allows probing the tunnelling site of the freed electron in the electron localization-assisted enhanced ionization of molecules near the critical internuclear distance (Sect. 3.3), how it reveals the orientation-dependent tunnelling ionization rate of polar molecules without pre-alignment of the molecules (Sect. 3.4), and how to use it to sequence the release order of the freed electrons in multielectron ionization of a multicenter molecular dimer (Sect. 3.5).
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We would like to thank the many coworkers and colleagues who helped in the present work. We would like to mention M. Kunitski, A. Vredenborg, M. Meckel, M. Magrakvelidze, B. Ulrich, M. Schöffler, M. Pitzer, M. Richter, S. Voss, H. Sann, H. Kim, F. K. Amankona-Diawuo J. Lower, T. Jahnke, L.P.H. Schmidt, A. Czasch, U. Thumm, T. Pfeifer, T. Seideman, and H. Schmidt-Böcking. This work was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. J.W. acknowledges support by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the “Eastern Scholar” Program, the NCET in University (NCET-12–0177), the Project from SSTC (13QH1401400), the “Shu Guang” project (12SG25), and the National Natural Science Fund (11425416 and 11374103).
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Wu, J., Dörner, R. (2016). Angular Streaking for Strong Field Ionization of Molecules—Attosecond Physics Without Attosecond Pulses. In: Kitzler, M., Gräfe, S. (eds) Ultrafast Dynamics Driven by Intense Light Pulses. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 86. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20173-3_3
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