Angularly resolved electron spectra of H⁻ by few-cycle laser pulses

Authors

Liang-You Peng, Peking University, BeijingFollow
Qihuang Gong, Peking University, Beijing
Anthony F. Starace, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

June 2008

Comments

Published in PHYSICAL REVIEW A 77, 065403 (2008); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.065403
©2008 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We study theoretically the detachment of H⁻ by a linearly polarized few-cycle laser pulse. We show that the angularly resolved distribution of the electrons is very sensitive to the carrier envelope phase (CEP) and the duration of the short laser pulse. This in turn provides an additional means to measure the CEP of a laser pulse at lower laser intensities.