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1 April 1990 Interaction of super-intense light fields with atoms and surfaces
Michael C. Downer, William C. Banyai, W. M. Wood, D. C. Anacker, James L. Erskine
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Abstract
Using amplified 100 fs, 616 nm pulses, we employed pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate strong field interactions with gases and metal surfaces. The ionization dynamics of a gas with a pump pulse foeused to 1016 W/cm2 were deduced from spectral shifts in a probe pulse. In addition to above threshold ionization, impact ionization and a nonlinear dependence of the collision frequency on pulse intensity are proposed as mechanisms for the spectral shifts. Also, the cooling time of a high-temperature solid density plasma was measured specifically, the nonequiibrium electron energy distribution excited by a resonantly absorbed pulse focused to 5 x 1012 W/cm2 on a metal surface was measured with a photoelectron time-offlight detector.
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Michael C. Downer, William C. Banyai, W. M. Wood, D. C. Anacker, and James L. Erskine "Interaction of super-intense light fields with atoms and surfaces", Proc. SPIE 1209, Picosecond and Femtosecond Spectroscopy from Laboratory to Real World, (1 April 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.17902
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KEYWORDS
Plasma

Ionization

Metals

Neon

Spectroscopy

Femtosecond phenomena

Gases

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