Isotope effect in the high harmonics of water
Abstract
We present evidence that bending motion launched by strong field ionization of the inner valence 3a1 orbital of H2O strongly affects the high harmonic spectrum. The measured high harmonics of H2O and D2O are modeled consistently with solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for several different laser intensities. This result introduces a new method to characterize weights of different ionic states prepared by strong field ionization.
We thank the Department of Energy, Offce of Basic Energy Science, AMOS program for support through the Stanford PULSE Institute.- Publication:
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APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011APS..DMP.K1007F