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4 - Atoms with one and two active electrons in strong laser fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2013

By
I. A. Ivanov  and
A. S. Kheifets
Edited by
Colm T. Whelan
I. A. Ivanov
Affiliation:
The Australian National University
A. S. Kheifets
Affiliation:
The Australian National University
Colm T. Whelan
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Virginia
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Summary

Introduction

Recent years have witnessed a remarkable progress in high-power short laser pulse generation. Modern conventional and free-electron laser (FEL) systems provide peak light intensities of the order of 1020 W cm−2 or above in pulses in femtosecond and sub-femtosecond regimes. The field strength at these intensities is a hundred times the Coulomb field, binding the ground-state electron in the hydrogen atom. These extreme photon densities allow highly non-linear multiphoton processes, such as above-threshold ionization (ATI), high harmonic generation (HHG), laser-induced tunneling, multiple ionization and others, where up to a few hundred photons can be absorbed from the laser field. In parallel with these experimental developments, massive efforts have been undertaken to unveil the precise physical mechanisms behind multiphoton ionization (MPI) and other strong-field ionization phenomena. It was shown convincingly that multiple ionization of atoms by an ultrashort intense laser pulse is a process in which the highly non-linear interaction between the electrons and the external field is closely interrelated with the fewbody correlated dynamics [1]. A theoretical description of such processes requires development of new theoretical methods to simultaneously account for the field nonlinearity and the long-ranged Coulomb interaction between the particles.

In this chapter, we review our recent theoretical work in which we develop explicitly time-dependent, non-perturbative methods to treat MPI processes in many-electron atoms. These methods are based on numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) for a target atom or molecule in the presence of an electromagnetic and/or static electric field. Projecting this solution onto final field-free target states gives us probabilities and cross sections for various ionization channels.

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Fragmentation Processes
Topics in Atomic and Molecular Physics
 , pp. 98 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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