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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Control of photoemission delay in resonant two-photon transitions

Luca Argenti, Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Richard Taïeb, Jérémie Caillat, A. Maquet, Fernando Martı́n

Published Jul 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

In contrast to one-photon transitions and non-resonant multiphoton transitions, time delay in resonant multi-photon electron emission can exhibit large positive and negative values that have no scattering equivalent, due to the interference of multiple ionization paths.
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/875/3/022040

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