Laser-driven nonlinear cluster dynamics
By T. Fennel, Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer, J. Tiggesbäumker, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, P. Dinh, E. Suraud. 2009
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Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser fields allow the analysis of photoionization, excited-state relaxation, and structural modifications on these finite quantum systems, large-amplitude collective electron motion and Coulomb explosion can be induced with intense laser pulses. This review provides an overview of key phenomena arising from laser-cluster interactions with focus on nonlinear optical excitations and discusses the underlying processes according to the current understanding. A general survey covers basic cluster properties and excitation mechanisms relevant for laser-driven cluster dynamics. Then, after an excursion in theoretical and experimental methods, results for single-photon and multiphoton excitations are reviewed with emphasis on signatures from time- and angular-resolved photoemission. A key issue of this review is the broad spectrum of phenomena arising from clusters exposed to strong fields, where the interaction with the laser pulse creates short-lived and dense nanoplasmas. The implications for technical developments such as the controlled generation of ion, electron, and radiation pulses will be addressed along with corresponding examples. Finally, future prospects of laser-cluster research as well as experimental and theoretical challenges are discussed.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials
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- Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems (2011, background): “HHG as well as atomic processes in intense laser fields have been recently reviewed in Fennel et al., 2010; Teubner and Gibbon, 2009; and Winterfeldt et al., 2008, with specific emphasis on the control of high-harmonic spectra by spatio-temporal shaping of the driving pulse (Winterfeldt et al.,…”