Manipulating electron-ion recollision in a midinfrared laser field

As one of the most important physical processes of strong-field laser-matter interaction, laser-driven electron-ion recollision depends sensitively on the polarization of the laser field and can be effectively manipulated via an orthogonally polarized two-color (OTC) laser field. Here we present an extension of recollision manipulation in an OTC field to the midinfrared laser field regime, and demonstrate that only a few recollisions occur in a multicycle $1800/900\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{nm}$ OTC laser field. The number of recollisions can be controlled by simply tuning the relative delay of the two-color laser pulses, and this manipulation process can be visualized by measuring the high-order harmonic spectra. When the intensity of a midinfrared OTC field is further increased, a single recollision can be correlated to one hump in the harmonic spectrum, which will help to increase the measurement accuracy of time-resolved dynamics in atoms and molecules.