Imaging ultrafast molecular wave packets with a single chirped UV pulse

We show how to emulate a conventional pump-probe scheme using a single frequency-chirped ultrashort UV pulse to obtain a time-resolved image of molecular ultrafast dynamics. The chirp introduces a spectral phase in time that encodes the delay between the pump and the probe frequencies contained in t...

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Autores: Jelovina, Denis, Feist, Johannes, Martín García, Fernando, Palacios Cañas, Alicia
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositório:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/679878
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/679878
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043424
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Ab initio calculations
Conventional pumps
Ionization probabilities
Molecular wave packets
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Resumo:We show how to emulate a conventional pump-probe scheme using a single frequency-chirped ultrashort UV pulse to obtain a time-resolved image of molecular ultrafast dynamics. The chirp introduces a spectral phase in time that encodes the delay between the pump and the probe frequencies contained in the pulse. By comparing the results of full dimensional ab initio calculations for the H2+ molecule with those of a simple sequential model, we demonstrate that, by tuning the chirp parameter, two-photon energy-differential ionization probabilities directly map the wave-packet dynamics generated in the molecule. As a result, one can also achieve a significant amount of control of the total ionization yields, with a possible enhancement by more than an order of magnitude