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The first part of the paper provides a review of systematic studies carried out in our laboratory on the Stark effect of highly excited H-atoms around the ionization threshold. Excitation is performed from individual Stark sublevels in the H(n = 2) state with π and O polarized laser radiation, resulting in eight essentially different ionization spectra. The experimental results fully agree with theory.
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Rottke, H., Holle, A., Welge, K.H. (1985). Laser spectroscopy of highly excited hydrogen atoms in electric and magnetic fields. In: Ehlotzky, F. (eds) Fundamentals of Laser Interactions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-15640-2_46
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