Field-free molecular orientation steered by combination of super-Gaussian and THz half-cycle laser pulses*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11674198 and 11874241) and the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province, China.

Cheng Qi-Yuan1, 2, Song Yu-Zhi2, Meng Qing-Tian2, †
       

Plots of (a) orientation versus time and (b) population of rotational states versus rotational quantum number at molecular temperature T = 0 K (olive line), 3 K (red line), and 5 (blue line), for E0 = 120 MV/cm, E1 = 15.5 MV/cm, CEP = 0.5π, td = 1.296 ps, σ = 1513 fs, and N = 20.