Ionization heating in rare-gas clusters under intense XUV laser pulses

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作者
Arbeiter, Mathias [1 ]
Fennel, Thomas [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Rostock, Inst Phys, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2010年 / 82卷 / 01期
关键词
FREE-ELECTRON LASER; MULTIPLE IONIZATION; FEMTOSECOND;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.82.013201
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The interaction of intense extreme ultraviolet (XUV) laser pulses (lambda = 32 nm, I = 10(11)-10(14) W/cm(2)) with small rare-gas clusters (Ar-147) is studied by quasiclassical molecular dynamics simulations. Our analysis supports a very general picture of the charging and heating dynamics in finite samples under short-wavelength radiation that is of relevance for several applications of free-electron lasers. First, up to a certain photon flux, ionization proceeds as a series of direct photoemission events producing a jellium-like cluster potential and a characteristic plateau in the photoelectron spectrum as observed in Bostedt et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133401 (2008)]. Second, beyond the onset of photoelectron trapping, nanoplasma formation leads to evaporative electron emission with a characteristic thermal tail in the electron spectrum. A detailed analysis of this transition is presented. Third, in contrast to the behavior in the infrared or low vacuum ultraviolet range, the nanoplasma energy capture proceeds via ionization heating, i.e., inner photoionization of localized electrons, whereas collisional heating of conduction electrons is negligible up to high laser intensities. A direct consequence of the latter is a surprising evolution of the mean energy of emitted electrons as function of laser intensity.
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