Photoionization in the presence of circularly polarized fundamental and odd-order harmonic fields

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2017

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Ivanov, Igor
Nam, Changhee
Kim, Kyung Taec

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American Physical Society

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We present a study of the photoelectron spectra for the ionization process driven by counterrotating and corotating circularly polarized fundamental and odd-order harmonic fields. The main features of the spectra, such as symmetric lobed structures, are understood using simple arguments based on the strong field approximation (SFA) picture of ionization. A deviation from this picture is, most notably, the presence of the low-energy structures (LES) in the spectra. We show that the Rydberg states populated as a result of the combined absorption of the photons from the fundamental and harmonic fields are responsible for the origin of LES

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Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

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