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High-order harmonic generation is a unique phenomenon to provide coherent ultrashort light source ranging to the extreme ultraviolet region. In recent years, ultrashort high-harmonic pulses have been used to study ultrafast dynamics in atoms and molecules. We present the pump-probe experimental results on the observation of the vibrational wave-packet dynamics in \(\mathrm{D}_{2}^{+}\) utilizing the high-order harmonic laser pulses of a sub-15 fs Ti:sapphire laser pulse. We launch the wave-packet of \(\mathrm{D}_{2}^{+}\) by using a sub-10 fs extreme ultraviolet high-harmonic pump pulse, and observe its evolution by using the split harmonic probe pulse, whose wavelength ranges from near infrared to vacuum ultraviolet. This pump-probe scheme can provide us with a powerful experimental tool for investigating a variety of wave packets evolving with a time scale of ∼20 fs.
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We thank Professor K. Yamanouchi and Dr. T. Okino for valuable discussions. This work was carried out as part of the Advanced Photon Science Alliance (APSA) project commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Y.N. gratefully acknowledges financial support by a grant for Scientific Research (A) 21244066. K.M. directed this research with a grant for the Extreme Photonics Research Group in RIKEN.
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Furukawa, Y., Nabekawa, Y., Midorikawa, K. (2014). Observation of Vibrational Wave-Packet Dynamics in \(\mathrm{D}_{2}^{+}\) Using High-Order Harmonic Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Paulus, G., Mathur, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science. Springer Series in Chemical Physics(), vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00521-8_3
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