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Attosecond angular streaking: an ideal technique to measure an electron tunneling time?

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Ultrafast Phenomena XVI

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We used attosecond angular streaking to measure attosecond ionization dynamics in the non-adiabatic tunneling regime of helium using slightly elliptically polarized 5.9 fs pulses with a peak intensity ranging from 2.3 to 3.5 x 1014 W/cm2 (corresponding to a Keldysh parameter variation of 1.45 to 1.17). With our technique we could demonstrate intensityindependent “instantaneous” ionization with an accuracy of 50 as. Numerical simulations based on the time-dependent Schrödinger equation confirm such ionization behavior with no distinct electron wave packets. This implies that we would not expect a tunneling time or multi-photon ionization delay in the ionization dynamics

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  1. Physics Department, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    Petrissa Eckle, Adrian Pfeiffer, Claudio Cirelli & Ursula Keller

  2. Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada

    André Staudte

  3. Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 60438, Germany

    Reinhard Dörner

  4. FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098, SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Harm Geert Muller

  5. Physics Department, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Markus Büttiker

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  1. National Research Council Canada, Sussex Drive 100, Ottawa, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Paul Corkum

  2. Dipto. Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133, Italy

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  3. Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of, Massachusetts Ave. 77, Cambridge, 02139, USA

    Keith A. Nelson

  4. Sektion Physik, Univ. München, Oettingenstr. 67, München, 80538, Germany

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  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Cyclotron Road 1, Berkeley, 94720, USA

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Eckle, P. et al. (2009). Attosecond angular streaking: an ideal technique to measure an electron tunneling time?. In: Corkum, P., Silvestri, S., Nelson, K., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XVI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_20

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