Exploring single-photon ionization on the attosecond time scale
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Abstract
One of the fundamental processes in nature is the photoelectric effect in which an electron is ripped away from its atom via the interaction with a photon. This process was long believed to be instantaneous but with the development of attosecond pulses (1 as 10-18 s) we can finally get an insight into its dynamic. Here we measure a delay in ionization time between two differently bound electrons. The outgoing electrons are created via ionization with a train of attosecond pulses and we probe their relative delay with a synchronized infrared laser. We demonstrate how this probe field influences the measured delays and show that this contribution can be estimated with a universal formula, which allows us to extract field free atomic data.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 032025 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 388 |
| Issue number | PART 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
| Externally published | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 27th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions |
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| Abbreviated title | ICPEAC 2011 |
| Conference number | 27 |
| Duration | 27 July - 2 August 2011 |
| Location | Queen's University Belfast |
| City | Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0003-2572-1149/work/208796536 |
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