High-resolution selective excitation of resonance-enhanced multiphoton-ionization photoelectron spectroscopy by shaping Femtosecond laser pulses

Femtosecond laser-induced resonance-enhanced multiphoton-ionization photoelectron spectroscopy (REMPI-PS) is faced with two drawbacks of low spectral resolution and poor selective excitation due to the broad spectral bandwidth. We propose a scheme to obtain a high-resolution selective excitation of (2+1) REMPI-PS by combining π and cosinusoidal phase modulation. Our theoretical results indicate that the (2+1) REMPI-PS signals related to neighboring excited states can be differentiated from their indistinguishable photoelectron spectra by the π phase modulation, and then their selective excitation can be realized by supplementally adding the cosinusoidal phase modulation. Furthermore, the physical mechanism of the high-resolution selective excitation of (2+1) REMPI-PS is explained by considering the two-photon power spectrum.