Triggering recollisions with XUV pulses: imprint of recolliding periodic orbits

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2021.106104MaRDI QIDQ2060669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 13 December 2021

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00967

zbMATH Keywords

attosecond physicslaser-driven atomic systemsperiodic orbitstime-periodic Hamiltonian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physical optics (78A10) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: We consider an electron in an atom driven by an infrared (IR) elliptically polarized laser field after its ionization by an ultrashort extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulse. We find that, regardless of the atom species and the laser ellipticity, there exists XUV parameters for which the electron returns to its parent ion after ionizing, i.e., undergoes a recollision. This shows that XUV pulses trigger efficiently recollisions in atoms regardless of the ellipticity of the IR field. The XUV parameters for which the electron undergoes a recollision are obtained by studying the location of recolliding periodic orbits (RPOs) in phase space. The RPOs and their linear stability are followed and analyzed as a function of the intensity and ellipticity of the IR field. We determine the relation between the RPOs identified here and the ones found in the literature and used to interpret other types of highly nonlinear phenomena for low elliptically and circularly polarized IR fields.

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