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 Liu1,23,*
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1State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China2Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, Chinashow less
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 ( 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.