Abstract
After a brief overview of attosecond pulse measurement techniques, we consider the time delay of electron detachment from a Coulomb center in the process of ionization. It is shown that the attosecond streaking, mostly used in time delay measurements, can be formally described by placing a virtual detector of the arrival time delay at a certain distance from the center of the system. This approach allows derivation of a simple formula for Coulomb-laser coupling that perfectly agrees with the results of numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation.
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The authors acknowledge support of the work from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 11-01-00523-a).
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Serov, V., Derbov, V., Sergeeva, T. (2015). Interpretation of the Time Delay in the Ionization of Coulomb Systems by Attosecond Laser Pulses. In: Shulika, O., Sukhoivanov, I. (eds) Advanced Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 193. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9481-7_14
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