Rydberg State Ionization by Half-Cycle-Pulse Excitation: Strong Kicks Create Slow Electrons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 27, 2002, Pages

  Wetzels, A ^a   Gurtler A ^a   Noordam, L D ^a   Robicheaux, F ^b   Dinu, C ^a   Muller, H G ^a   Vrakking, M J J ^a   van der Zande, W J ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; SILICON WAFERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HALF-CYCLE-PULSE (HCP) EXCITATION;

IONIZATION;

EID: 0037203383     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.273003     Document Type: Article

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