Published January 10, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Circularly polarized laser field-induced rescattering plateaus in electron-atom scattering

  • 1. Department of Physics, Voronezh State University, Voronezh 394006 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111 (United States)

Description

We analyze the laser ellipticity dependence of n-photon differential cross sections (dσn/dΩ) for electron-atom scattering in an intense elliptically polarized laser field. We show that there exist two plateau-like structures in the dependence of dσn/dΩ on n for any ellipticity, including for the case of circular polarization. We present numerical predictions for e-H scattering in a CO2-laser field and an analytical description of the plateau features in terms of the rescattering scenario

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2004.11.015;
PII
S0375-9601(04)01593-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
334
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 197-204
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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