Ultrafast Science, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 9802917(2022)

Probing Molecular Frame Wigner Time Delay and Electron Wavepacket Phase Structure of CO Molecule

Zhenning Guo1, Peipei Ge1, Yiqi Fang1, Yankun Dou1, Xiaoyang Yu1, Jiguo Wang1, Qihuang Gong1,2,3, and Yunquan Liu1,2,3、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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    The time delay of photoelectron emission serves as a fundamental building block to understand the ultrafast electron emission dynamics in strong-field physics. Here, we study the photoelectron angular streaking of CO molecules by using two-color (400+800 nm) corotating circularly polarized fields. By coincidently measuring photoelectrons with the dissociative ions, we present molecular frame photoelectron angular distributions with respect to the instantaneous driving electric field signatures. We develop a semiclassical nonadiabatic molecular quantum-trajectory Monte Carlo (MO-QTMC) model that fully captures the experimental observations and further ab initio simulations. We disentangle the orientation-resolved contribution of the anisotropic ionic potential and the molecular orbital structure on the measured photoelectron angular distributions. Furthermore, by analyzing the photoelectron interference patterns, we extract the sub-Coulomb-barrier phase distribution of the photoelectron wavepacket and reconstruct the orientation- and energy-resolved Wigner time delay in the molecular frame. Holographic angular streaking with bicircular fields can be used for probing polyatomic molecules in the future.

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    Zhenning Guo, Peipei Ge, Yiqi Fang, Yankun Dou, Xiaoyang Yu, Jiguo Wang, Qihuang Gong, Yunquan Liu. Probing Molecular Frame Wigner Time Delay and Electron Wavepacket Phase Structure of CO Molecule[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2022, 2(1): 9802917

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Mar. 1, 2022

    Accepted: May. 6, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2023

    The Author Email: Liu Yunquan (yunquan.liu@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.34133/2022/9802917

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