Two-photon resonant excitation of a doubly excited state in He atoms by high-harmonic pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21922-21929

  Sekikawa, Taro ^a   Okamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Haraguchi, Eisuke ^a   Yamashita, Mikio ^a   Nakajima, Takashi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM LASERS; ELECTRON EMISSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER EXCITATION; PHOTONS; SAPPHIRE;

DINGER EQUATION; DOUBLY EXCITED STATE; HELIUM ATOM; HIGH HARMONICS; RESONANT EXCITATION; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TIME DEPENDENT; TWO PHOTON;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 58149242600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021922     Document Type: Article

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