Time development of resonant multiphoton ionisation of sodium
- 28 April 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 15 (8) , 1229-1241
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/15/8/015
Abstract
The time evolution of the ionisation probability of a sodium atom irradiated by linearly polarised light with frequency near the 3s-3p transition frequency is studied theoretically by the following method. The 3s and 3p states are strongly coupled using the rotating-wave approximation and then the resulting strongly coupled wavefunction is used as the lowest-order approximation in applying second-order perturbation theory to obtain the ionisation probability. The photoelectron energy spectrum and total ionisation probability are studied for various laser detunings and turn-on forms. Processes which are forbidden at long times by energy conservation are found to be important at short times (t-9 s for a laser intensity of order MW cm-2) . The ionisation probability is found to exhibit a plateau behaviour at times much less than the 3s-3p Rabi cycling time and subsequently to oscillate with the 3p population before reaching rate behaviour in the long-time limit.Keywords
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