Observing the transition from a multiphoton-dominated to a field-mediated ionization process for polyatomic molecules in intense laser fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5101-5104

  De Witt, Merrick J ^a   Levis, Robert J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NAPHTHALENE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANTHRACENE; ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 0032494921     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5101     Document Type: Article

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