Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields

oleh: S. Kerbstadt, K. Eickhoff, T. Bayer, M. Wollenhaupt

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01

Deskripsi

Laser fields can be tuned to probe electronic motion in atoms and molecules. Here the authors ionize Na atoms using bichromatic pulses to generate electron wave packets of crescent-shaped and 7-fold rotational symmetry which do not follow the field symmetry but are determined by multiphoton interference.