title: Controlling two-electron systems in their excited state by an intense laser field: Strong-field ionization of atomic helium & Wave-packet manipulation in molecular hydrogen
creator: Borisova, Gergana Dimitrova
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: In this work fundamental light–matter interaction is studied in excited-state two-electron systems under the influence of an intense laser field in two respects: First, motivated by the results of a numerical simulation on the role of initial-state electron correlation for the ionization process, strong-field ionization out of selectively prepared doubly excited states (DESs) in helium is studied in a two-colour extreme ultraviolet (XUV)–infrared (IR) experiment using a reaction microscope (REMI). Detected recoil-ion and photoelectron momentum distributions help to identify a variety of different IR-induced ionization pathways for both single and double ionization out of different DESs as the initial state for strong-field interaction. Turning the focus from the atomic to the molecular two-electron system, in the second study, a novel all-optical approach enables visualisation of the dynamics of a vibrational wave packet in an electronically excited state of neutral H_2 through molecular self-probing by the ground state encoded in the reconstructed time-dependent dipole response of the excited system from XUV spectroscopy data. In a pump–control scheme, an additional interaction with a 5-fs near-infrared (NIR) pulse of adjustable intensity modifies the vibrational wave-packet revival. The adoption of an impulsive control mechanism together with state-resolved extraction of the accumulated strong-field induced phases leading to the observed revival shift brings access to state-dependent polarizability of different vibronic states in the excited wave packet. In future, both experimental approaches can be applied to multi-electron systems to study and control correlation in specifically prepared excited quantum systems.
date: 2024
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34342/1/Dissertation_GerganaDBorisova.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00034342
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-343425
identifier:   Borisova, Gergana Dimitrova  (2024) Controlling two-electron systems in their excited state by an intense laser field: Strong-field ionization of atomic helium & Wave-packet manipulation in molecular hydrogen.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34342/
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language: eng