Attosecond science and the tunnelling time problem

AS Landsman, U Keller - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The question of how long it takes a particle to tunnel through a potential barrier has been a
subject of intense theoretical debate for the last 80 years. In this decade of attosecond …

It is all about phases: ultrafast holographic photoelectron imaging

CF de Morisson Faria, AS Maxwell - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoelectron holography constitutes a powerful tool for the ultrafast imaging of matter, as it
combines high electron currents with subfemtosecond resolution, and gives information …

Strong-field physics with mid-IR fields

B Wolter, MG Pullen, M Baudisch, M Sclafani… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Strong-field physics is currently experiencing a shift towards the use of mid-IR driving
wavelengths. This is because they permit conducting experiments unambiguously in the …

Keldysh theory of strong field ionization: history, applications, difficulties and perspectives

SV Popruzhenko - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2014 - new.iopscience.iop.org
The history and current status of the Keldysh theory of strong field ionization are reviewed.
The focus is on the fundamentals of the theory, its most important applications and those …

Interpreting attoclock measurements of tunnelling times

L Torlina, F Morales, J Kaushal, I Ivanov, A Kheifets… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Resolving in time the dynamics of light absorption by atoms and molecules, and the
electronic rearrangement this induces, is among the most challenging goals of attosecond …

Attoclock reveals natural coordinates of the laser-induced tunnelling current flow in atoms

AN Pfeiffer, C Cirelli, M Smolarski, D Dimitrovski… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
In the research area of strong-laser-field interactions and attosecond science, tunnelling of
an electron through the barrier formed by the electric field of the laser and the atomic …

Breakdown of the dipole approximation in strong-field ionization

A Ludwig, J Maurer, BW Mayer, CR Phillips… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report the breakdown of the electric dipole approximation in the long-wavelength limit in
strong-field ionization with linearly polarized few-cycle mid-infrared laser pulses at …

Dual-chirped optical parametric amplification of high-energy single-cycle laser pulses

L Xu, EJ Takahashi - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
We demonstrate how a scheme called advanced dual-chirped optical parametric
amplification (DC-OPA) that employs two kinds of nonlinear crystal (BiB3O6 and MgO-doped …

Low-energy structures in strong field ionization revealed by quantum orbits

TM Yan, SV Popruzhenko, MJJ Vrakking, D Bauer - Physical Review Letters, 2010 - APS
Experiments on atoms in intense laser pulses and the corresponding exact ab initio
solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) yield photoelectron spectra …

Classical-quantum correspondence for above-threshold ionization

M Li, JW Geng, H Liu, Y Deng, C Wu, LY Peng… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We measure high resolution photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) for above-threshold
ionization of xenon atoms in infrared laser fields. Based on the Ammosov-Delone-Krainov …