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Physical Review Letters

Effect of Coherent Continuum-Continuum Relaxation and Saturation in Multiphoton Ionization

Zhifang Deng, Joseph H. Eberly

Published Nov 5, 1984• 96 citations
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Abstract

Atomic continuum-continuum transitions appear to be saturable at realistic light intensities. We discuss some consequences in multiphoton ionization.Received 23 July 1984DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1810©1984 American Physical Society

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10.1103/physrevlett.53.1810

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Atomic continuum-continuum transitions appear to be saturable at realistic light intensities. We discuss some consequences in multiphoton ionization.Received 23 July 1984DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1810©1984 American Physical Society
Studies of multiphoton ionization of atoms have revealed several unexpected characteristics. The confluence of the experimental evidence leads to the hypothesis that the basic character of the atomic response involves highly organized, coherent motions of entire atomic shells. The important regime, for which the radiative field strength is greater than an atomic unit (e/a(2)(0)), can be viewed in approximate correspondence with the physics of fast (approximately 10 MeV per atomic mass unit) atom-atom scattering. This physical picture provides a basis for the expectation that stimulated emission in the x-ray range can be produced by direct, highly nonlinear coupling of ultraviolet radiation to atoms.