Simultaneous multiphoton ionization by two radiation fields. Effects of the statistical properties of the radiation

Abstract

Summary.--We report on calculations of differential and total ionization crosssections of hydrogen atoms irradiated by two radiation fields with different properties. One of the fields is of low intensity and relatively high frequency, the other is of low frequency and high intensity. In particular, we show that the inclusion of the multimode structure of the low-frequency laser field modifies considerably the shape of the angular distribution of the photoelectrons and the rates of ionization into the different channels characterized by the number of low-frequency photons exchanged. Further, we find that the average energy exchanged between the photoelectrons and the low-frequency radiation field is independent of the statistical properties of the low-frequency laser field.PACS 32.80 -Photon interactions with atoms.