Dissociative frustrated triple ionization of ArKr dimers induced by a linearly polarized two-color femtosecond laser field

The authors experimentally investigate frustrated triple ionization of ArKr dimers, where one of the ionized electrons is recaptured by the ion, and show that they are able to extract details of the ionization dynamics by scanning the relative phase between the two colors of the ionizing laser field. The results provide new insight into the mechanisms of strong-field ionization of diatomic systems and the interplay of the laser-driven electron dynamics with a two-center ionic potential.