Abstract

When exposed to intense light of ~580 nm, the ground state of K shifts up in energy, passing through two photon resonances with Rydberg states, and finally crossing the two-photon ionization limit. We have used laser pulses of varying duration to study the nature of the population transfer from the ground state to the excited state due to the intensity-tuned resonances encountered during the rising edge of the pulse. A dynamic Floquet approach in which the resonances are treated as avoided crossings of the Floquet energy levels is used to model the population transfer and gives excellent agreement with the data. The model is extended into the strong-coupling regime where the ground state interacts with many excited states simultaneously, and we show that this model can be used to describe multiphoton ionization as a series of avoided crossings with the continuum.

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Physics

Keywords and Phrases

Atoms; Calculations; Dye lasers; Electron energy levels; Ionization; Laser pulses; Mathematical models; Photoelectron spectroscopy; Photons; Probability; Resonance; Electron energy analyzer; Excited state; Floquet model; Ground state; Landau Zener method; Multiphoton resonances; Population transfer; Rydberg states; Stark shift; Time dependent shift; Potassium

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1050-2947

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 1994 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Aug 1994

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