Invited Special Paper

Probe and control of attosecond ultrafast dynamics in molecules

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  • State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Received date: 2022-05-14

  Online published: 2022-12-19

Abstract

The advanced technique of few-cycle femtosecond laser pulse and table-top extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulse provides an opportunity to investigate real-time dynamics of electrons and nucleuses in atoms or molecules from femtosecond to attosecond time scale. Based on the fundamental attosecond metrologies of reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transition, attosecond streaking camera, attoclock and attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, we summarize the latest progress
upon the ultrafast photoionization and dissociation process in molecules including the ultrafast dynamics of electron transition, charge
transfer, electronic correlation effect and electron-nucleivibronic coupling.

Cite this article

ZUO Zitan, JIANG Wenyu, XU Yidan, TONG Jihong, HAN Lulu, XU Liming, GONG Xiaochun, WU Jian . Probe and control of attosecond ultrafast dynamics in molecules[J]. Chinese Journal of Nature, 2022 , 44(6) : 422 -431 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-9608.2022.06.002

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