Lorentz Meets Fano in Spectral Line Shapes: A Universal Phase and Its Laser Control
Lorentz Meets Fano in Spectral Line Shapes: A Universal Phase and Its Laser Control
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DOI:
10.1126/science.1234407
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发表时间:
2013-05-10
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56.9
通讯作者:
Pfeifer, Thomas
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作者:
Ott, Christian;Kaldun, Andreas;Pfeifer, Thomas
Symmetric Lorentzian and asymmetric Fano line shapes are fundamental spectroscopic signatures that quantify the structural and dynamical properties of nuclei, atoms, molecules, and solids. This study introduces a universal temporal-phase formalism, mapping the Fano asymmetry parameter q to a phase. of the time-dependent dipole response function. The formalism is confirmed experimentally by laser-transforming Fano absorption lines of autoionizing helium into Lorentzian lines after attosecond-pulsed excitation. We also demonstrate the inverse, the transformation of a naturally Lorentzian line into a Fano profile. A further application of this formalism uses quantum-phase control to amplify extreme-ultraviolet light resonantly interacting with He atoms. The quantum phase of excited states and its response to interactions can thus be extracted from line-shape analysis, with applications in many branches of spectroscopy.