Carrier-envelope phase dependence of non-sequential double ionization in few-cycle pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20562-20570

  Li, Hongyun ^a,b   Chen, J ^a,c   Jiang, Hongbing ^a   Liu, Jie ^a,c   Fu, Panming ^b   Gong, Qihuang ^a   Yan, Zong Chao ^d,e   Wang, Bingbing ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^e HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LASER PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; DOUBLE IONIZATION; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; IONIZATION RATES; LASER INTENSITIES; LASER POLARIZATION; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; SCATTERING METHODS;

ATOM LASERS;

ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; LASER; LIGHT; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; IONS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349128487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020562     Document Type: Article

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