High order harmonic generation from SF6: Deconvolution of macroscopic effects

B P Wilson; K D Fulfer; S Mondal; X Ren; J Tross; E D Poliakoff; J Jose; Anh-Thu Le; R R Lucchese; C Trallero-Herrero

doi:10.1063/1.4971244

High order harmonic generation from SF₆: Deconvolution of macroscopic effects

J Chem Phys. 2016 Dec 14;145(22):224305. doi: 10.1063/1.4971244.

Authors

B P Wilson¹, K D Fulfer¹, S Mondal², X Ren², J Tross², E D Poliakoff¹, J Jose³, Anh-Thu Le², R R Lucchese³, C Trallero-Herrero²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
² J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.

PMID: 27984891
DOI: 10.1063/1.4971244

Abstract

We measure high order harmonics from the molecule SF₆ over a large range of phase matching conditions and observe several features in the harmonics that are largely independent of such macroscopic conditions. The experimental data are then compared to the quantitative rescattering theory for the generation of harmonics from three orbitals. With this comparison, we are able to assign spectroscopic features in the harmonics to contributions from 1t_1g (HOMO) and 5t_1u (HOMO-1) orbitals.