Direct probing of electronic density distribution of a Rydberg state by high-order harmonic generation in a few-cycle laser pulse

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Zhai, Zhen ^a   Chen, Jing ^b   Yan, Zong Chao ^c   Fu, Panming ^a   Wang, Bingbing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; HARMONIC ORDERS; HARMONIC SPECTRUM; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; INITIAL POSITION; RYDBERG ELECTRON;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES;

RYDBERG STATES;

EID: 78650940920     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043422     Document Type: Article

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