Classical Dynamics of Harmonic Generation of the HydrogenMolecular Ion Interacting with Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses

Within Born--Oppenheimer approximation, by using the classical trajectory theory, a description for the high-order harmonic generation of the hydrogen molecular ion interacting with ultrashort laser pulses has been presented. The Coulomb singularities have been remedied by the regularization. The action-angle variables have been used to generate the initial inversion symmetry microcanonical distribution. Within a proper intensity range, a harmonic plateau with only odd harmonics appears. For a larger intensity, because of the existence of chaos, the harmonic spectra become noisier. For a large enough intensity, the ionization takes place and the harmonics disappear. So the chaos causes the noises, the ionization suppresses the harmonic generation, and the onset of the ionization follows the onset of chaos.