Attosecond Streaking in the Low-Energy Region as a Probe of Rescattering

作者:Xu Ming Hui*; Peng Liang You; Zhang Zheng; Gong Qihuang; Tong Xiao Min; Pronin Evgeny A; Starace Anthony F
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 107(18): 183001.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.183001

摘要

The dynamics of low-energy photoelectrons (PEs) ionized by a single attosecond pulse in the presence of an intense infrared (IR) laser field is investigated. Whereas attosecond streaking usually involves momentum shifts of high-energy PEs, when PEs have low initial kinetic energies, the IR field can control the continuum-electron dynamics by inducing PE scattering from the residual ion. A semiclassical model is used to show that particular PE trajectories in the continuum involving electron-ion scattering explain the interference patterns exhibited in the low-energy PE spectrum. We confirm the effects of the trajectories by means of a full quantum simulation.