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Controlling the Motion of Electronic Wavepackets Using Cycle-Sculpted Two-Color Laser Fields

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VIII

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We use cycle-sculpted two-color waveforms to drive electronic wavepackets generated by strong-field ionization from helium, neon, and argon gas atoms and analyze their momentum spectra measured by electron-ion coincidence momentum spectroscopy. Varying the relative phase of the two colors allows to sculpt the ionizing field and hence to control the emission times and motion of the wavepackets on an attosecond timescale. Using semiclassical calculations, we investigate the influence of the ionic Coulomb field onto the motion of emitted electronic wavepackets. We further show that the measured electron momentum spectra contain interference patterns created by pairs of electron wavepackets that are released within a single laser-field cycle. We experimentally distinguish these subcycle interference structures from above-threshold ionization (ATI) peaks and argue that they can be used to extract the subcycle phase evolution of the laser-driven complex bound-state wavefunction.

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We acknowledge, funding by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grants P21463-N22 and SFB-016 and discussions with J. Burgdörfer, D. Arbó, E. Persson, and S. Gräfe.

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Kitzler, M., Xie, X., Roither, S., Kartashov, D., Baltuška, A. (2012). Controlling the Motion of Electronic Wavepackets Using Cycle-Sculpted Two-Color Laser Fields. In: Yamanouchi, K., Nisoli, M., Hill, W. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VIII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28726-8_6

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