Ionization dynamics of embedded Xenon clusters in strong laser fields

Christian Peltz

Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany


Efficient energy absorption and the emission of highly charged atomic ions are well known effects emerging from the interaction of ultrashort and intense near-infrared laser pulses with clusters. Besides the many corresponding, relatively well understood experiments on free clusters, the influence of a superfluid environment has not been worked out in detail yet. For a theoretical study of the matrix effects on the absorption and ionization processes we use a semiclassical molecular dynamics approach. Results on the spatially resolved energy absorption as well as on final ion charge spectra for dual-pulse excitation of XeN@HeM as function of laser intensity and size of the matrix will be presented.

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