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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.163004
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- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-86ER13491, DE-FG02-09ER16115]
- Max Planck Society
- DFG [Kl-1439/3, Kl-1439/5]
- Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE SCGF)
- [DE-AC05-06OR23100]
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The dissociation of an H-2(+) molecular-ion beam by linearly polarized, carrier-envelope-phase-tagged 5 fs pulses at 4 x 10(14) W/cm(2) with a central wavelength of 730 nm was studied using a coincidence 3D momentum imaging technique. Carrier-envelope-phase-dependent asymmetries in the emission direction of H+ fragments relative to the laser polarization were observed. These asymmetries are caused by interference of odd and even photon number pathways, where net zero-photon and one-photon interference predominantly contributes at H+ + H kinetic energy releases of 0.2-0.45 eV, and net two-photon and one-photon interference contributes at 1.65-1.9 eV. These measurements of the benchmark H-2(+) molecule offer the distinct advantage that they can be quantitatively compared with ab initio theory to confirm our understanding of strong-field coherent control via the carrier-envelope phase.
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