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Author: Ivanov, Misha × Author: Patchkovskii, Serguei × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × WGL Institute: MBI ×

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    All-optical Stückelberg spectroscopy of strongly driven Rydberg states
    (College Park, MD : APS, 2022) Bengs, Ulrich; Patchkovskii, Serguei; Ivanov, Misha; Zhavoronkov, Nickolai
    The AC Stark shift of electronic levels is ubiquitous in the interaction of intense light fields with atoms and molecules. As the light intensity changes on the rising and falling edges of a femtosecond laser pulse, it shifts the Rydberg states in and out of multiphoton resonances with the ground state. The two resonant pathways for transient excitation arising at the leading and the trailing edges of the pulse generate Young's type interference, generally referred to as the Stückelberg oscillations. Here we report the observation of the Stückelberg oscillations in the intensity of the coherent free-induction decay following resonant multiphoton excitation. Moreover, combining the experimental results with accurate numerical simulations and a simple model, we use the Stückelberg oscillations to recover the population dynamics of strongly driven Rydberg states inside the laser pulse by all-optical measurements after the end of the pulse. We demonstrate the potential of this spectroscopy to characterize lifetimes of Rydberg states dressed by laser fields with strengths far exceeding the Coulomb field between the Rydberg electron and the core.
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    Population transfer to high angular momentum states in infrared-assisted XUV photoionization of helium
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2020) Mayer, Nicola; Peng, Peng; Villeneuve, David M.; Patchkovskii, Serguei; Ivanov, Misha; Kornilov, Oleg; Vrakking, Marc J.J.; Niikura, Hiromichi
    An extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) laser pulse consisting of harmonics of a fundamental near-infrared (NIR) laser frequency is combined with the NIR pulse to systematically study two-color photoionization of helium atoms. A time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy experiment is carried out where energy- A nd angle-resolved photoelectron distributions are obtained as a function of the NIR intensity and wavelength. Time-dependent Schrödinger equation calculations are performed for the conditions corresponding to the experiment and used to extract residual populations of Rydberg states resulting from excitation by the XUV + NIR pulse pair. The residual populations are studied as a function of the NIR intensity (3.5 × 1010-8 × 1012 W cm-2) and wavelength (760-820 nm). The evolution of the photoelectron distribution and the residual populations are interpreted using an effective restricted basis model, which includes the minimum set of states relevant to the features observed in the experiments. As a result, a comprehensive and intuitive picture of the laser-induced dynamics in helium atoms exposed to a two-color XUV-NIR light field is obtained. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.