Femtosecond light source for phase-controlled multiphoton ionization. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We describe a femtosecond Raman light source with more than an octave of optical bandwidth. We use this source to demonstrate phase control of multiphoton ionization under conditions where ionization requires eleven photons of the lowest frequency of the spectrum or five photons of the highest frequency. The nonlinearity of the photoionization process allows us to characterize the light source. Experiment-to-theory comparison implies generation of a near single-cycle waveform.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Sokolov, A. V., Walker, D. R., Yavuz, D. D., Yin, G. Y., & Harris, S. E.

citation count

  • 94

complete list of authors

  • Sokolov, AV||Walker, DR||Yavuz, DD||Yin, GY||Harris, SE

publication date

  • July 2001