https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134102019
When does an electron exit a tunneling barrier?
1 Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
2 CELIA, Universite Bordeaux I, UMR 5107 (CNRS, Bordeaux 1, CEA), 351 Cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
3 National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
4 Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ London, United Kingdom
5 Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
We probe the dynamics of tunnel ionization via high harmonic generation. We characterize the ionization dynamics in helium atoms, and apply our approach to resolve subtle differences in ionization from different orbitals of a CO2 molecule.
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