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High-order above-threshold ionization in elliptically polarized laser fields: Identifying the recollision time

Zhangjin Chen, Qiongmin Ding, Qinghua Chen, and Shuqi Li

Fang Liu

Huipeng Kang

Toru Morishita

Jing Chen

  • Department of Physics, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China

  • Helmholtz-Institut Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany

  • State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China

  • Institute for Advanced Science, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

  • Department of Modern Physics, and Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China and Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053107 – Published 10 May, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.053107

Abstract

We simulate the two-dimensional high-energy photoelectron momentum distributions (PMDs) for high-order above threshold ionization (HATI) of hydrogen atoms in intense elliptically polarized laser fields by using the strong-field approximation and solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. It is found that the centers of the left- and right-side circular rescattered ridges in the PMDs due to elastic collision of the returning electron with the parent ion, that locate on the polarization axis for linearly polarized laser field, move slightly below and above the major polarization axis, respectively, for elliptically polarized laser fields. We suggest that, by analyzing the center shift of the measured PMDs for HATI in elliptically polarized fields, one can identify the recollision time.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053107– Published 10 May, 2023
  • Received 3 March 2023
  • Accepted 28 April 2023
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