Exploring laser-driven quantum phenomena from a time-frequency analysis perspective: A comprehensive study

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 30459-30482

  Sheu, Yae Lin ^a   Wu, Hau Tieng ^b   Hsu, Liang Yan ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DYNAMICS; IONIZATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION METHOD; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; REASSIGNMENT METHOD; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TUNNELING IONIZATION; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

ATOM LASERS;

EID: 84957029125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.030459     Document Type: Article

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