Abstract
In an effort to gain more insight into the process of multiphoton multiple ionization, several experiments have recently been carried out to determine the wavelength dependence of the double ionization of Sr and Ba. 1-3 These studies were not as conclusive as one might hope, in that the observed resonances in the production of Sr++ and Ba++ did not quite match the energy levels of Sr+ and Ba+. Here we report experiments in which we have compared the spectra for the production of Ba by an intense laser with and without the population of specific states of Ba by modest secondary lasers. The results of these experiments show clearly that Ba++ is produced by first producing real intermediate states of Ba+ which are multiphoton ionized through intermediate resonances in Ba+.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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