Technical Physics
Electron transitions and the spectrum of radiation emitted by an atom interacting with an ultrashort electromagnetic pulse
V. I. Matveev
Abstract
Electron transitions and the spectrum of radiation emitted by an atom interacting with an ultrashort electromagnetic pulse are studied based on the sudden perturbation approximation. The excitation and ionization probabilities, the spectra of pulse reradiation by the atom, and the reradiation cross sections are calculated. It is concluded that the reradiation of ultrashort electromagnetic pulses by multielectron atoms is of a coherent nature.