Selective Strong-Field Enhancement and Suppression of Ionization with Short Laser Pulses
Optics
2016-07-06 v5 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate robust selective excitation and attenuation of atomic Rydberg level populations in sodium vapor (Na I) using intense laser pulses in the strong field limit (). The coherent control of the atomic population and related ionization channels is realized for intensities above the over-the-barrier ionization intensity. A qualitative model predicts that this strong field coherent control arises through the manifestation of a Freeman resonance.
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@article{arxiv.1509.04571,
title = {Selective Strong-Field Enhancement and Suppression of Ionization with Short Laser Pulses},
author = {Nathan A. Hart and James Strohaber and Alexandre A. Kolomenskii and Gerhard G. Paulus and Dieter Bauer and Hans A. Schuessler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04571},
year = {2016}
}
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7 pages, 6 figures