Attosecond Streaking Enables the Measurement of Quantum Phase (original) (raw)
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Abstract
Attosecond streaking, as a measurement technique, was originally conceived as a means to characterize attosecond light pulses, which is a good approximation if the relevant transition matrix elements are approximately constant within the bandwidth of the light pulse. Our analysis of attosecond streaking measurements on systems with a complex response to the photoionizing pulse reveals the relation between the momentum-space wave function of the outgoing electron and the result of conventional retrieval algorithms. This finding enables the measurement of the quantum phase associated with bound-continuum transitions.
Publication:
Physical Review Letters
Pub Date:
August 2010
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.073001
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Keywords:
- 32.80.-t;
- Photon interactions with atoms;
- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Physics - Optics
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