Toru Morishita

TL;DR: It is established that laser-generated high-energy electron momentum spectra and high-order harmonic spectra can be used to extract accurate differential elastic scattering and photo-recombination cross sections of the target ion with free electrons, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative rescattering theory for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by intense laser pulses is presented, which can be expressed as a product of a returning electron wave packet and the photorecombination differential cross section of the laser free continuum electron back to the initial bound state.

TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative rescattering (QRS) theory was proposed to explain the strong field phenomena of high-order harmonic generation, high-energy above-threshold ionization and non-sequential double ionization.

TL;DR: A comprehensive quantitative rescattering (QRS) theory for describing the production of high-energy photoelectrons generated by intense laser pulses is presented in this article, where the momentum distributions of these electrons can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave packet with the elastic differential cross sections (DCS) between free electrons with the target ion.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the structural information, in particular the differential elastic scattering cross sections of the target ion by free electrons, can be accurately extracted from the intensity distributions of photoelectrons on the ridges, thus effecting a first step toward laser-induced self-imaging of thetarget, with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.