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Multiphoton ionization and multiphoton resonances in the tunneling regime

Potvliege, RM; Mese, E; Vucic, S

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E Mese

S Vucic



Abstract

The rate of ionization of an atom of helium, argon, or hydrogen exposed to an intense monochromatic laser field and the quasienergy spectrum of their dressed states are studied for values of the Keldysh parameter between 1 and 0.6 and wavelengths between 390 and 1300 nm. The calculations are carried out within the non-Hermitian Floquet theory. Resonances with intermediate excited states significantly affect ionization from the dressed ground state at all the intensities and all the wavelengths considered. The dressed excited states responsible for these structures are large-α0 states akin to the Kramers-Henneberger states of the high-frequency Floquet theory. Within the single-active-electron approximation, these large-α0 states become species independent at sufficiently high intensity or sufficiently long wavelength. Apart for the resonance structures arising from multiphoton coupling with excited states, the ab initio Floquet ionization rate is in excellent agreement with the predictions of two different calculations in the strong field approximation, one based on a length-gauge formulation of this approximation and one based on a velocity-gauge formulation. The calculations also confirm the validity of the ω2 expansion as an alternative to the strong field approximation for taking into account the nonadiabaticity of the ionization process in intense low-frequency laser fields.

Citation

Potvliege, R., Mese, E., & Vucic, S. (2010). Multiphoton ionization and multiphoton resonances in the tunneling regime. Physical Review A, 81(5), Article 053402. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.81.053402

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date May 4, 2010
Deposit Date Feb 21, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Physical Review A
Print ISSN 1050-2947
Electronic ISSN 1094-1622
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 81
Issue 5
Article Number 053402
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.81.053402

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