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中国科学通报：英文版

OBSERVATION ON SINGLE-COLOUR THREEPHOTON IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY OF URANIUM ATOM

金昌泰, 梁秀清, 王成飞, 李玉福, 周大凡

Published Jan 1, 1992• 0 citations
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Abstract

, at least three photons of wavelengths in visible region are required to ionize an uranium atom from its ground state or one of the low-lying metastable states. When a single-colour laser beam acts with the uranium vapor, the uranium atom can sequentially absorb three photons and ionize, but the cross sec-

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