Nonlinear Coherence Effects in Transient-Absorption Ion Spectroscopy with Stochastic Extreme-Ultraviolet Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Thomas Ding*, Marc Rebholz, Lennart Aufleger, Maximilian Hartmann, Kristina Meyer, Veit Stooß, Alexander Magunia, David Wachs, Paul Birk, Yonghao Mi, Gergana Dimitrova Borisova, Carina Da Costa Castanheira, Patrick Rupprecht, Zhi Heng Loh, Andrew R. Attar, Thomas Gaumnitz, Sebastian Roling, Marco Butz, Helmut Zacharias, Stefan DüstererRolf Treusch, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Christian Ott, Thomas Pfeifer

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Abstract

We demonstrate time-resolved nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy on multiply charged ions, here applied to the doubly charged neon ion, driven by a phase-locked sequence of two intense free-electron laser pulses. Absorption signatures of resonance lines due to 2p-3d bound-bound transitions between the spin-orbit multiplets P30,1,2 and D31,2,3 of the transiently produced doubly charged Ne2+ ion are revealed, with time-dependent spectral changes over a time-delay range of (2.4±0.3) fs. Furthermore, we observe 10-meV-scale spectral shifts of these resonances owing to the ac Stark effect. We use a time-dependent quantum model to explain the observations by an enhanced coupling of the ionic quantum states with the partially coherent free-electron laser radiation when the phase-locked pump and probe pulses precisely overlap in time.

Original languageEnglish
Article number103001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume123
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 4 2019
Externally publishedYes

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  • General Physics and Astronomy

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