Polarization and ellipticity of high-order harmonics from aligned molecules generated by linearly polarized intense laser pulses Academic Article

abstract

• We present theoretical calculations for polarization and ellipticity of high-order harmonics from aligned N2, CO2, and O2 molecules generated by linearly polarized lasers. Within the rescattering model, the two polarization amplitudes of the harmonics are determined by the photo-recombination amplitudes for photons emitted with polarization parallel or perpendicular to the direction of the same returning electron wave packet. Our results show clear species-dependent polarization states, in excellent agreement with experiments. We further note that the measured polarization ellipse of the harmonic furnishes the needed parameters for a "complete" experiment in molecules. 2010 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Lucchese, Robert

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Le, A., Lucchese, R. R., & Lin, C. D.

citation count

• 41

complete list of authors

• Le, Anh-Thu||Lucchese, RR||Lin, CD

publication date

• August 2010

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• 34 Chemical Sciences
• 3406 Physical Chemistry
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023814

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/179428

start page

• 023814

volume

• 82

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1103%2Fphysreva.82.023814