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In this report I should like to discuss some features of multistep processes of selective action on atoms and molecules by laser radiation which make them rather efficient when they are applied to various fields — beginning with nuclear physics up to biology. This discussion will be concrete enough. I will begin with the simplest object — hydrogen atom. On this example I will discuss the ways of controlling the proton beam characteristics by laser radiation. Then I will proceed to the problem of selective detection of single atoms by the laser selective multistep ionization and to the process of laser selective multistep photodissociation of polyatomic molecules and its applications. I will finish the discussion with DNA molecule that is a complicated object for us.
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Letokhov, V.S. (1979). Laser-Induced Selective Multistep Processes: Impact on Nuclear Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In: Walther, H., Rothe, K.W. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy IV. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38950-7_52
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