Laser-induced blurring of molecular structure information in high harmonic 
spectroscopy

Risoud, Francois; Leveque, Camille; Labeye, Marie; Caillat, Jeremie; Maquet, Alfred; Salieres, Pascal; Taieb, Richard; Shaaran, Tahir

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17416-9

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Laser-induced blurring of molecular structure information in high harmonic spectroscopy

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Shaaran, Tahir
Division Prof. Dr. Christoph H. Keitel, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Risoud, F., Leveque, C., Labeye, M., Caillat, J., Maquet, A., Salieres, P., et al. (2017). Laser-induced blurring of molecular structure information in high harmonic spectroscopy. Scientific Reports, 7: 17302. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17416-9.

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Abstract

High harmonic spectroscopy gives access to molecular structure with Angstrom resolution. Such information is encoded in the destructive interferences occurring between the harmonic emissions from the different parts of the molecule. By solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation, either numerically or with the molecular strong-field approximation, we show that the electron dynamics in the emission process generally results in a strong spectral smoothing of the interferences, blurring the structural information. However we identify specific generation conditions where they are unaffected. These findings have important consequences for molecular imaging and orbital tomography using high harmonic spectroscopy.