Time:2016-04-21ClickTimes:
Recently,the team of extreme optics, Prof. Yunquan Liu and Prof. Qihuang
Gong, have study the phase structure of the tunneling wave packets from
strong-field ionization of molecules and present a molecular quantum-trajectory
Monte Carlo (MO-QTMC) model to describe the laser-driven dynamics of electron
process in molecules. Using this model, they reproduce and explain the
alignment-dependent molecular frame photoelectron spectra of strong-field
tunneling ionization of N2 reported by M. Meckel et al. [Nat. Phys. 10,
594(2014)]. Besides modelling the low-energy photoelectron angular distributions
quantitatively, we extract the phase structure of strong-field molecular
tunneling wave packets, shedding light on its physical origin. The initial phase
of the tunneling wave packets at the tunnel exit depends on both, the initial
transverse momentum distribution and the molecular internuclear distance. It has
been further shown that the ionizing molecular orbital has a critical effect on
the initial phase of the tunneling wave packets. Since the phase structure of
photoelectron wave packet is a key ingredient, this work has important
implication for modelling strong-field molecular photoelectron holography,
high-harmonic generation and molecular orbital imaging.