Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Updates | Downloads | Help
MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik
MO 27: Ultrafast Dynamics III and High-harmonic Generation (joint session MO/A)
MO 27.6: Talk
Friday, March 15, 2024, 15:45–16:00, HS 3044
Orbital interference effects in low-order harmonic generation in benzene — •Samuel Schöpa, Falk-Erik Wiechmann, Franziska Fennel, and Dieter Bauer — Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
We explore the impact of the driving laser’s ellipticity and polarization on the low-order harmonic spectrum of benzene and find a strong interference in the 5th harmonic between emission originating from transitions between π orbitals and emission from σ orbitals. The contribution of the π orbitals entirely vanishes due to interference for driving with a laser polarized along a σv mirror axis. However, the π orbital’s contribution takes over for elliptic polarization while being fundamentally different from the σ orbital emission, i.e., having the opposite helicity and a perpendicular major polarization axis. The resulting interference yields a complex dependence of the low-order harmonic spectrum of benzene on the ellipticity and the polarization of the driving field.