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Microwave multiphoton excitation and ionization

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Using Rydberg atoms and microwave fields it has been possible to observe virtually all one electron strong field phenomena. The attraction of these experiments is that they can be more controlled than most laser experiments, with the result that more quantitative information can be extracted. The insights gained from these experiments can be profitably transferred to optical experiments. To demonstrate the latter point we demonstrate that apparently non-resonant microwave ionization, in fact, occurs by resonant transitions through intermediate states. These experiments demonstrated clearly the power of Floquet analysis of such processes, and the ideas were subsequently applied to the analogous problem of laser multiphoton ionization.

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Gallagher, T.F. (1997). Microwave multiphoton excitation and ionization. In: Atoms and Molecules in Intense Fields. Structure and Bonding, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0111351

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