Suppression of Recollision-Excitation Ionization in Nonsequential Double Ionization of Molecules by Mid-Infrared Laser Pulses

The electron dynamics in strong field non-sequential double ionization of nitrogen molecules is investigated with the three-dimensional (3D) classical ensemble model. The numerical results show that the longitudinal momentum spectrum of the doubly charged ions evolves from a wide single-hump structure at the near-infrared (NIR) regime into a double-hump structure when the wavelength enters the mid-infrared (MIR) regime. Back analysis reveals that in the MIR regime, the recollision excitation with subsequent ionization (RESI) is strongly suppressed with increasing wavelength, which results in the double-hump structure of the ions momentum spectra. This double-hump structure becomes more pronounced as the wavelength further increases because the contribution of the RESI further decreases.