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Suggested Reading
ADK Rates
Rates for ionization by an electron tunneling
through a coulomb barrier suppressed by an AC
electric field.M. V. Ammosov, et al. Sov. Phys. JEPT 64,
1191 (1966).
ATI
Above Threshold Ionization is the absorption of
more photons than necessary for ionization by an
electron.P. Agostini et al., PRL 42, 1127
(1979).
P. Agostini et al., J. Phys. B 14,
L491 (1981).
P. Kruit et al., PRA 28,248
(1983).
P. Bucksbaum et al., PRL 56, 2590 (1986).
C. J. Joachin et al., Adv. At.
Mol. Opt. Phys 42, 281 (2000).
Bardsley Fringes
Bardsley Fringes are a calculated series of peaks
that resemble Rydberg states in ATI PES.J. N. Bardsley, A. Szoke and M. J. Comella J.
Phys. B 21, 3899 (1988).
Channel Closing
A CC occurs when an
ionization or transition sequence/path is no
longer possible.P. Kruit et al., PRA 28, 248
(1987).
F. H. M. Faisal et al., PRL 68,
2909 (1992).
Collective Multielectron
Tunneling
U. Eichmann, M. Dörr,
H. Maeda, W. Becker, and W. Sander, PRL 84,
3550 (2000).Coincidence Experiments
B. Witzel, N. A. Papadogiannis, and D.
Charlambidis, PRL 85, 2268 (2000).
E. R. Peterson, and P. H. Bucksbaum, PRA
64, 053405 (2001).Elliptical Effects on Ion Yields
Chunlei Guo, and George N. Gibson, PRA 63,
040701(R) (2001).
G. D. Gillen, M. A. Walker, and L. D. Van
Woerkom, PRA 64, 043413 (2001).Freeman Resonances
A FR occurs when the energy level of an
atomic (Rydberg) state is shifted by the
light field into resonance with an integer
number of photons from the ground state.R. R. Freeman et al., PRL 59,
1092 (1987).
R. R. Freeman, P. H. Bucksbaum, and T. J.
McIlrath, IEEE Journal of Quantum
Electronics 24, 1461 (1988).
FROG (Frequency Resolved Optical Gating) A laser diagnostic technique that measures
the intensity, frequency and phase of a
laser pulse as functions of time.R. Trebino, Kenneth W. DeLong, David N.
Fittinghoff, John N. Sweetser, Marco A.
Krumbügel, and Bruce A. Richman, Rev. Sci.
Instrum. 69, 3277 (1997).
Harmonic Generation
HG is the absorption of multiple photons and
emission of one.A. McPherson et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am.
B 4, 595 (1987).
M.Ferray et al.,
J. Phys. B 21, L31 (1988).
ICE
Isolated Core
Excitation is the "shelving" of the outer or
active electron into a Rydberg state and
susequent excitiation of a core electron.
T. F. Gallagher, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4,
794 (1987).
M. D. Lindsay, L. T. Cai, G. W.
Schinn, C. J. Dai, and T. F. Gallagher, Phys.
Rev. A 45, 231
(1992).
Keldysh Parameter
A parameter
relating the ionization potential to the
pondermotive energy and used to determine
whether the atom-field interaction is in the MPI
or tunneling regime.L. V. Keldysh, Sov. Phys. JEPT 20, 1307
(1965).
MPI
Multi-photon
ionization is the ionization of an atom or molecule via
the absorption of more than one photon.G. Voronov et al., JETP Lett. 1,
66 (1965).
Quantum Interferences
The constructive or
destructive interference of electron
wavefunctions or wavepackets.R. Kopold and W. Becker, J. Phys. B 32,
L419 (1999).
Elliptical Polarization
G. G. Paulus et al. PRL 72, 2851 (1994).Rescattering
A "collision" between an ionized electron or wavepacket and the atomic core.G. G. Paulus et al. PRL 72, 2851
(1994).
Shake-off
A correlated event of the excitation or
ionization of a second electron as the first
electron tunnels free.D. L. Fittinghoff, P. B. Bolton, B. Chang, and
K. C. Kulander, PRL 69, 2642 (1992).
Simpleman's Model
Semi-classical theory describing ionization as a
two-step process, whereby an electron is lifted to the
continuum with no KE and the subsequent motion is
governed classically by an oscillating electric
field.H. B. v. Linden, v. d. Heuvell and H. G. Muller,
in Multiphoton Processes, Studies in Modern
Optics No. 8, 25, Cambridge (1988).
P. B. Corkum,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1994 (1993).
G. G. Paulus
et al., PRA 52, 4043 (1995).
Single Photon-Double
Ionization
The double
ionization of helium with a single photon.R. Wehlitz et al., PRL 67,3764
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