Research Catalog

Title

Multiphoton processes in atoms / N.B. Delone, V.P. Krainov.

Author

Delone, N. B.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Kraĭnov, V. P. (Vladimir Pavlovich), 1938-

Description

xiv, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Multiphoton ionization of atoms in intense laser-light fields is gaining ground as a spectroscopic diagnostic tool. In this volume, Delone and Krainov present their and others' theoretical descriptions of the processes occurring in atoms under conditions of multiple-photon impacts, in particular, the shift, broadening, and mixing of electronic states, which complicate the interpretation of spectra.
• The intended audience is the experimental physicist or physical chemist facing the task of unraveling an atomic multiphoton ionization spectrum. Comparisons of the theory to available experimental data are provided throughout. The topics of individual chapters include tunneling ionization, above-threshold ionization, ionization of multiply charged ions, resonance-enhanced ionization, super-intense radiation fields, and properties of Rydberg states in strong fields

Series Statement

Springer series on atoms + plasmas ; 13

Uniform Title

Springer series on atoms + plasmas ; 13.

Subjects

• Atoms
• Multiphoton processes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316 and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. AC-Stark Shift of Atomic Levels. 2.1. Single-Level Quantum System. 2.2. The Linear Stark Shift for a Hydrogen Atom in an Oscillating Field. 2.3. Atomic Response to an External Oscillating Field. 2.4. The Perturbation of Non-Degenerate Atomic States in a Weak Field. 2.5. Perturbation of the Hydrogen Atom Spectrum in a Strong Field. 2.6. Perturbation of Rydberg States in a Weak Field. 2.7. Stark Effect in a Super-Atomic Radiation Field. 2.8. The Stark Atom. 2.9. AC-Stark Shift in Negative Ions. 2.10. Dynamical Stark Resonance. 2.11. AC-Stark Shift and Ionization -- 3. Ionization of a Particle with a Short-Range Potential Well. 3.1. The Keldysh-Faisal-Reiss Approximation. 3.2. Model One-Particle Potentials of Negative Ions. 3.3. Residual Interaction Between Electrons. 3.4. Removal of Internal Electrons from Negative Ions. 3.5. Numerical Solutions for the Strong-Field Case. 3.6. Experiments on Multiphoton Detachment of Negative Ions -- 4. Tunneling Ionization of Atoms.
• 4.1. Landau-Dykhne Adiabatic Approximation. 4.2. Rates of Tunneling Ionization for Atoms and Ions. 4.3. Energy Spectrum of Electrons. 4.4. Above-Barrier Decay of Atoms. 4.5. Experimental Data and Interpretation. 4.6. Relativistic Effects -- 5. Direct (Nonresonant) Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms. 5.1. Multiphoton Ionization of Hydrogen Atom. 5.2. Alkali Atoms. 5.3. Atoms with Many Valence Electrons -- 6. Resonance-Enhanced Ionization. 6.1. Resonance-Enhanced Ionization in a Weak Field. 6.2. Field Effects in Resonance-Enhanced Ionization. 6.3. Angular Distributions of Photoelectrons in Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms. 6.4. Exotic Resonances. 6.5. Resonances with Autoionizing States. 6.6. Further Experiments -- 7. Above-Threshold Ionization of Atoms. 7.1. The Nature of Above-Threshold Multiphoton Ionization. 7.2. Compound Matrix Elements for Processes of Kth and (K + 1)th Orders. 7.3. WKB Estimates of Dipole Matrix Elements. 7.4. A Critical Field.
• 7.5. Two-Photon Above-Threshold Ionization of a Hydrogen Atom by Radiation of Less than Critical Intensity. 7.6. Multiphoton Above-Threshold Ionization of a Hydrogen Atom by Radiation of Less than Critical Intensity. 7.7. Experimental Aspects. Parameters that Influence the Photoelectron Spectra. 7.8. Experimental Data for I < I[subscript c]. 7.9. Theoretical Description of Above-Threshold Ionization at I < I[subscript c]. 7.10. Experimental Data for I > I[subscript c] and Their Interpretation. 7.11. Theoretical Interpretation of Electron Energy Spectra for I > I[subscript c]. 7.12. Above-Threshold Ionization by Ultra-Short Laser Pulses. 7.13. Other Effects -- 8. Multiple Ionization of Atoms. 8.1. Mechanisms of Multiple Ionization. 8.2. Stepwise Production of Multiply Charged Ions. 8.3. Simultaneous Detachment of Several Electrons. 8.4. Detachment of Electrons from Inner Shells of Atoms and Ions. 8.5. Multiple Ionization of Atoms in the Tunneling Limit.
• 8.6. Production of Multiply Charged Ions in Laser Fields of Subatomic and Superatomic Intensity -- 8.7. Summary -- 9. Ionization by Fields of Subatomic Strength. 9.1. Definition of an Atomic Field. 9.2. Ionization of Atoms and Atomic Ions at [actual symbol not reproducible] and [gamma] > 1. 9.3. Above-Barrier Decay of an Atom at F > F[subscript a] -- 10. Atoms in Superintense Laser Fields. 10.1. Qualitative Picture of Atomic Stabilization. 10.2. Keldysh-Reiss Approach for a Superintense Field. 10.3. Numerical Calculations of Ionization Rates. 10.4. The Kramers-Henneberger Method. 10.5. Numerical Solutions of Newton Equations. 10.6. Stabilization of a Rydberg Atom in a Superintense Field. 10.7. Stark Atom. 10.8. Collapse and Revival of a Population Inversion in a Superintense Field -- 11. Related Phenomena. 11.1. Microwave Ionization of Atoms. 11.2. Multiphoton Ionization of Polarized Atoms. 11.3. Nonlinear Ionization by Non-Classical Light. 11.4. Excitation of High Optical Harmonics.

ISBN

• 038756845X (New York : alk. paper)
• 354056845X (Berlin : alk. paper)

LCCN

93025345

OCLC

ocm28293779

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries