Subfemtosecond glory hologrammetry for vectorial optical waveform reconstruction

J. F. Tao, J. Cai, Q. Z. Xia, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 101, 043416 – Published 27 April 2020

Abstract

In this work, we propose a method to characterize the temporal structure of arbitrary optical laser pulses with low pulse energies. Our theory is based on strong-field photoelectron holography with the glory rescattering effect as the underlying mechanism in the near-forward direction. Utilizing the subfemtosecond glory rescattering process as a fast temporal gate to sample the unknown light pulse, the time-dependent vectorial electric field can be retrieved from the streaking photoelectron momentum spectra. Our method avoids the challenging task of generation or manipulation of attosecond pulses and signifies important progress in arbitrary optical waveform characterization.

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Received 4 November 2019
Accepted 27 March 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.043416

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic & molecular processes in external fields Multiphoton or tunneling ionization & excitation Ultrafast optics

Schroedinger equation Semiclassical methods Strong-field approximation

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

J. F. Tao ¹, J. Cai ², Q. Z. Xia^3,*, and J. Liu^4,5,†

¹Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China
²School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
³National Laboratory of Science and Technology on Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
⁴Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing 100193, China
⁵CAPT, HEDPS, and IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center of MoE, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

^*xia_qinzhi@iapcm.ac.cn
^†jliu@gscaep.ac.cn

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Vol. 101, Iss. 4 — April 2020

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