ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Tunnel ionization in three-dimensional tailored light fields
Tunneling is a non-resonant, quantum mechanical process without any classical analog. The electric field of a strong laser pulse can bend atomic and molecular potentials such that an electron can be liberated via tunneling. This allows for probing properties of atomic and molecular orbitals with subnanometer and attosecond resolution (like a tunneling microscope’s tip probes properties of the investigated surface). So far, the electric field vector is restricted to a one-dimensional line (1D, e.g. linearly polarized light) or a two-dimensional plane (2D, e.g. circularly polarized light). Since tunneling acts like a filter to the same 1D or 2D subspace in position space, this limits the…
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