Photoionization of atomic hydrogen dressed by a circularly polarizedCO2-laser field

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Abstract
We calculate the two-color ionization profile of atomic hydrogen in the presence of both a weak tunable high-frequency laser field and a low-frequency laser field of moderate intensity. The high-frequency spectroscopic light is used to probe the structure of Rydberg states dressed by the low-frequency field. We construct the photoionization spectrum from the sum of the resonance contributions by calculating the transition dipole moments between the initial state and the dressed Rydberg states, analogous to the study of photoionization in the presence of a dc field carried out by Alvarez and Silverstone [Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1364 (1989)].