Orientation effects in high-order harmonic generation of H$_{2}^{+}$ subject to strong laser fields

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Abstract

We present \textit{ab initio} 3D calculations of the orientation-dependent high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of the hydrogen molecular ion H$_{2}^{+}$ subject to intense linearly polarized laser pulses with the wavelength 800nm [1]. The nuclei are kept at the equilibrium separation of 2 a.u., and the initial electronic state can be either $1\sigma_{g}$ (ground) or $1\sigma_{u}$ (first excited) state. Split-operator technique in the energy represenation and generalized pseudospectral discretization in prolate spheroidal coordinates are used to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. HHG power spectra show strong dependence on the orientation angle between the molecular axis and the polarization direction of the laser field. Particularly, orientation-selected resonances with other electronic states are well pronounced. Two-center interference effects in the HHG spectra are also analyzed.\\ 1. D. A. Telnov and S. I. Chu, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{76}, 043412 (2007).

*This work was partially supported by DOE and NSF

Authors

  • Dmitry A. Telnov

    • St.Petersburg State University, Russia
  • Shih-I Chu

    • Center for Theoretical Sciences, Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • University of Kansas
    • Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045