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Decay of oriented Rydberg wave packets excited with far-infrared radiation

Marcel Drabbels
1998
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Abstract

Transitions from bound atomic Rydberg Stark states in a static electric field to autoionizing Rydberg states above the electric-field-induced ionization threshold are studied using a broadband, tunable free-electron laser (photon energy 160-1400 cm(-1), pulse duration similar to 1 ps) and compared with multichannel quantum defect theory calculations. An atomic streak camera is used to record the time-resolved electron emission transients of the autoionizing atoms. For Stark states located on the downfield side of the potential, the far-infrared ionization spectrum is found to be smooth and the electron emission prompt (

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Marcel Drabbels
1998
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/5c655db1-c640-462c-86f8-06b4eed6ac66

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