Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse
Abstract
We study the excitation to Rydberg states in the interaction of the hydrogen atom with a short, strong laser pulse. Utilizing solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation we find that the parity of the populated angular momentum states agrees with the selection rules for multiphoton resonant absorption at low intensities, if the pulse length is not too short. In contrast, the parity effect cannot be observed for ultrashort pulses as well as for long pulses at high intensities. Here, we further identify signatures of the population in the excited states via the line emissions from the populated np states after the end of the pulse exhibiting the parity effect.
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1610573
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1479853
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001771; PHY-1734006; FA9550-16-1-0121
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Optics; Physics; High-order harmonic generation; Multiphoton or tunneling ionization & excitation; Strong field excitation; Strong-field-induced spectra
Citation Formats
Venzke, J., Reiff, R., Xue, Z., Jaroń-Becker, A., and Becker, A. Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.98.043434.
Venzke, J., Reiff, R., Xue, Z., Jaroń-Becker, A., & Becker, A. Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.043434
Venzke, J., Reiff, R., Xue, Z., Jaroń-Becker, A., and Becker, A. Tue .
"Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.043434. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1610573.
@article{osti_1610573,
title = {Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse},
author = {Venzke, J. and Reiff, R. and Xue, Z. and Jaroń-Becker, A. and Becker, A.},
abstractNote = {We study the excitation to Rydberg states in the interaction of the hydrogen atom with a short, strong laser pulse. Utilizing solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation we find that the parity of the populated angular momentum states agrees with the selection rules for multiphoton resonant absorption at low intensities, if the pulse length is not too short. In contrast, the parity effect cannot be observed for ultrashort pulses as well as for long pulses at high intensities. Here, we further identify signatures of the population in the excited states via the line emissions from the populated np states after the end of the pulse exhibiting the parity effect.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.98.043434},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 4,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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