Strong-field photoionization revisited

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 335-338

  Blaga, C I ^a,b   Catoire, F ^a   Colosimo, P ^a   Paulus, G G ^c,d   Muller, H G ^e   Agostini, P ^a   Dimauro, L F ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTOIONIZATION;

ABOVE-THRESHOLD IONIZATION; ELECTRON WAVE PACKET; LASER-ATOM INTERACTIONS; LOW ENERGY STRUCTURES; MIDINFRARED LASERS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHOTOELECTRON ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE;

ATOM LASERS;

EID: 67649159795     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1228     Document Type: Article

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