Journal article

Experimental ionization of atomic hydrogen with few-cycle pulses

MG Pullen, WC Wallace, DE Laban, AJ Palmer, GF Hanne, AN Grum-Grzhimailo, B Abeln, K Bartschat, D Weflen, I Ivanov, A Kheifets, HM Quiney, IV Litvinyuk, RT Sang, D Kielpinski

Optics Letters | Published : 2011

Abstract

We present experimental data on strong-field ionization of atomic hydrogen by few-cycle laser pulses. We obtain quantitative agreement at the 10% level between the data and an ab initio simulation over a wide range of laser intensities and electron energies. © 2011 Optical Society of America.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Dan Kleppner for assistance with the atomic H beam source. This work was supported by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USAFOSR) under grant FA2386-09-1-4015 and the Australian Research Council under grants DP0878560 and CE0561787.