Laser-induced processes during the Coulomb explosion of [Formula Presented] in a Ti-sapphire laser pulse

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 3922-3933

  Walsh, T D G ^a   Ilkov, F A ^a   Chin, S L ^a   Chateauneuf F ^a   Nguyen Dang, T T ^a   Chelkowski, S ^b   Bandrauk, A D ^b   Atabek, O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c Lab de Photophysique Molec   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; MOLECULES;

ABOVE THRESHOLD DISSOCIATION; ABOVE THRESHOLD IONIZATION; COULOMB EXPLOSION; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER INDUCED PROCESSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032209598     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.3922     Document Type: Article

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