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Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3455–3458 (1992)

Above-threshold ionization of Cesium under femtosecond laser pulses: New substructure due to strongly coupled bound states

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W. Nicklich, H. Kumpfmüller, and H. Walther
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and Sektion Physik der Universität München, W-8046 Garching, Germany

X. Tang, Huale Xu, and P. Lambropoulos
Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484

First above-threshold-ionization (ATI) spectra on a cesium atoms obtained with laser pulses as short as 70 fs are presented. Up to 7 ATI peaks exhibiting new substructure related to the extremely large Rabi coupling between the ground and first excited states have been detected. The angular and intensity dependence of the ATI signal has been studied. It is shown that the ATI peaks shift to higher electron energies with rising laser intensity. The obtained results are compared with a perturbative as well as a nonperturbative theory which predicts the structure.

© 1992 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3455
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3455
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 42.50.Hz