VERIFICATION OF THE DOMINANT ROLE OF RESONANT ENHANCEMENT IN SHORT-PULSE MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION

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作者
GIBSON, GN [1 ]
FREEMAN, RR [1 ]
MCILRATH, TJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV MARYLAND,INST PHYS SCI & TECHNOL,COLL PK,MD 20742
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1904
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report experimental results which imply that observed peaks in the short-pulse photoelectron spectrum of atoms in high fields result only from a resonant enhancement of the multiphoton ionization rate at the peak of the laser pulse, rather than a two-step process of real population transfer and subsequent single-photon ionization. These results consist of the first identification, in a high intensity (> 10(13) W/cm2) short-pulse photoelectron spectrum, of low-lying states of argon with an ac Stark shift significantly different from the ponderomotive energy.
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