Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 12, 123201(2021)

Time-energy analysis of the photoionization process in a double-XUV pulse combined with a few-cycle IR field

Yi Jia1, Li Guo2、*, Shilin Hu3, Xinyan Jia1、**, Daihe Fan1, Ronghua Lu4, Shensheng Han4, and Jing Chen5,6、***
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
  • 3Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Metrology and Sensing & School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai 519082, China
  • 4Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 5Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
  • 6Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China
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    Category: Ultrafast Optics and Attosecond/High-field Physics

    Received: Apr. 12, 2021

    Accepted: May. 21, 2021

    Published Online: Aug. 10, 2021

    The Author Email: Li Guo (guoli@shnu.edu.cn), Xinyan Jia (xyjia@swjtu.edu.cn), Jing Chen (chen_jing@iapcm.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.123201

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