Nonsequential double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Liu, X ^a   De Morisson Faria, C Figueira ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON TUBE COMPONENTS; ELECTRONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION (HHG); MONOCHROMATIC FIELDS; NONSEQUENTIAL DOUBLE IONIZATION (NSDI); TUNNELING RATES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 2442553792     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.133006     Document Type: Article

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