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Two-Dimensional Frequency Resolved Optomolecular Gating of High-Order Harmonic Generation
A Ferré1, H Soifer2, O Pedatzur2
1Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, CELIA, UMR5107, F33405 Talence, France.
Abstract:
Probing electronic wave functions of polyatomic molecules is one of the major challenges in high-harmonic spectroscopy. The extremely nonlinear nature of the laser-molecule interaction couples the multiple degrees of freedom of the probed system. We combine two-dimensional control of the electron trajectories and vibrational control of the molecules to disentangle the two main steps in high-harmonic generation-ionization and recombination. We introduce a new measurement scheme, frequency-resolved optomolecular gating, which resolves the temporal amplitude and phase of the harmonic emission from excited molecules. Focusing on the study of vibrational motion in N_{2}O_{4}, we show that such advanced schemes provide a unique insight into the structural and dynamical properties of the underlying mechanism.
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