Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields

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 interfer...

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Main Authors: S. Kerbstadt, K. Eickhoff, T. Bayer, M. Wollenhaupt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08601-7