Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields

Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields

Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields, Published online: 08 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08601-7

Laser fields can be tuned to probe electronic motion in atoms and molecules. Here the authors ionize Na atoms using bichromatic pulses to generate electron wave packets of crescent-shaped and 7-fold rotational symmetry which do not follow the field symmetry but are determined by multiphoton interference.

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