Interpulse interference of electron emission from an atom irradiated by sinusoidally phase-modulated pulse**Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0403300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 11774129, 11274141, 11627807, 11604119, and 11534004), and the Jilin Provincial Research Foundation for Basic Research, China (Grant No. 20170101153JC).

Abstract

We theoretically investigate the photoelectron emission from an atom irradiated by an amplitude modulated sinusoidally phase-modulated pulse through solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in the momentum space. By controlling the phase amplitude of the pulse in the frequency domain, it can be found that the photoelectron spectra appear as explicit interference phenomena, which originated from the interference between the directly ionized electron and the ionization of the pre-excited atom from different subpulses.