Two-color pump-probe experiments in helium using high-order harmonics |
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Authors: | A. Johansson M.K. Raarup Z.S. Li V. Lokhnygin D. Descamps C. Lyngå E. Mevel J. Larsson C.-G. Wahlström S. Aloise M. Gisselbrecht M. Meyer A. L'Huillier |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden, SE;(2) Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, DK;(3) LURE, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, Batiment 209D, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France and CEA/DRECAM/SPAM, CEN Saclay, 91105 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, FR |
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Abstract: | A pump-probe technique has been applied for measuring the lifetimes and absolute photoionization cross-sections of excited He states. The 1s2p 1P and 1s3p 1P states of He are excited by using the 13th and the 14th harmonic, respectively, of a tunable 70 ps dye laser generated in a Kr gas jet. The states are ionized after a varying time delay, by absorption of probe photons with energies between 1.6 and 4.5 eV. Lifetimes of τ(1s2p) = 0.57 ns and τ(1s3p) = 1.76 ns are determined with a precision of about 15%. A significant enhancement of the number of ions present in the lifetime curves at zero time delay for pressures above 6×10-5 mbar is attributed to direct two-photon ionization of He in combination with AC Stark broadening of the excited state and absorption of the XUV light in the medium. Absolute photoionization cross-sections from the He 1s2p 1P and He 1s3p 1P states in the threshold region are determined by measuring the saturation of the ionization process with a precision of ∼ 25%. In addition, the variation of the relative orientation between the polarization vectors of the pump and probe beams enables the determination of partial photoionization cross-sections. Received 3 June 2002 / Received in final form 14 August 2002 Published online 22 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"Present address: Department of Biophysics, Leiden University, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands. RID="b" ID="b"Present address: Continuum Electro-Optics Inc., 3150 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA. RID="c" ID="c"Present address: CEA/DRECAM/SPAM, CEN Saclay, 91105 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. RID="d" ID="d"Present address: Department of Physics, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda. RID="e" ID="e"Present address: CELIA, Université Bordeaux 1, 33405 Talence, France. RID="f" ID="f"Present address: MAX-Lab, Lund University, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. RID="g" ID="g"e-mail: anne.lhuillier@fysik.lth.se |
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Keywords: | PACS. 32.70.Cs Oscillator strengths, lifetimes, transition moments – 32.80.Fb Photoionization of atoms and ions – 42.65.Ky Harmonic generation, frequency conversion |
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