Frustrated double ionization in two-electron triatomic molecules

被引:23
作者
Chen, A. [1 ]
Price, H. [1 ]
Staudte, A. [2 ,3 ]
Emmanouilidou, A. [1 ]
机构
[1] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] Univ Ottawa, Joint Lab Attosecond Sci, 100 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
[3] CNR, 100 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
ENHANCED IONIZATION; LASER FIELDS; MODEL; H-3+;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.94.043408
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Using a semiclassical model, we investigate frustrated double ionization (FDI) in D-3(+), a two-electron triatomic molecule, when driven by an intense, linearly polarized, near-infrared (800 nm) laser field. We compute the kinetic energy release of the nuclei and find a good agreement between experiment and our model. We explore the two pathways of FDI and show that, with increasing field strength, over-the-barrier ionization overtakes tunnel ionization as the underlying mechanism of FDI. Moreover, we compute the angular distribution of the ion fragments for FDI and identify a feature that can potentially be observed experimentally and is a signature of only one of the two pathways of FDI.
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