Coherent Control of Atomic Excitation in Strong Fields

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

We developed a more effective numerical method to solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for arbitrary atoms in an intense laser field.Since this was the first year of the research project, we focus on not only developing the simulation code, but also rewriting the code so it runs on the newest simulation accelerator, a GPU machine. We also worked on describing a shaped laser pulse or chirp pulse and using a chirped pulse to control atomic dynamical processes. All those progress guarantees that we can perform the proposed research smoothly. Through numerical simulations, we show that the resulting bound-state population is sensitive to both the intensity and the CEP. The experimental data agree with the theoretical prediction, and the results encourage the use of precisely tailored laser fields to coherently control the strong-field excitation process. We find a markedly different behavior for the CEP-dependent bound-state population at low and high intensities with a clear boundary, which we attribute to the transition from the multiphoton to the tunneling regime. This work has been published in Physical Review Letters. This work puts us in a leading position in this research field.We also collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Electro-Communications to uncover the physical mechanisms which lead to an unexpectedly large polarization of Be-like highly charged ions. This work was also published in Physical Review Letters.