Abstract
In recent years our understanding of how laser fields interact with a continuum of levels has progressed substantially. No longer is the continuum viewed as a dissipative environment, best described by a set of kinetic equations. Recent theoretical* and experimental work has shown that strong laser fields involving a continuum of levels may often maintain perfeet coherence. One of the m ore interesting colterent phenomena involving the continuum is the dressing of a continuum by a bound state, termed laser-induced continuum structure (LICS). In the LICS phenomenon, a strong laser field, connecting an unpopulated bound state to the continuum mixes some bound- state character into the continuum. This optically induced resonance can be detected by a second (weaker) laser field, which induces a transition from a populated bound state to the structured continuum.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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