Published October 14, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Coulomb asymmetry and sub-cycle electron dynamics in multiphoton multiple ionization of H2

  • 1. Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science of the National Research Council, University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6 (Canada)
  • 2. Département de Chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1 (Canada)
  • 3. Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt (Germany)

Description

We present a systematic study of the molecular-frame photo-electron angular distributions produced by multiphoton double ionization of H2 using circularly polarized 800 nm, femtosecond laser pulses. We compare experimental results to numerical results obtained from a reduced-dimensionality time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) model. In addition, we implement a TDSE-like version of the strong-field approximation to isolate the effect of the parent ion's Coulomb potential on the continuum electron in our simulations. Thereby we identify the contributions of the parent ion potential, and light induced sub-optical cycle electron dynamics on the observable energy and angular distributions.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/45/19/194011

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Journal Volume
45
Journal Issue
19
Journal Page Range
[10 p.]
ISSN
0953-4075
CODEN
JPAPEH