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B. Held, G. Mainfray, C. Manus, J. Morellec, F. Sanchez

Physical Review Letters · 1973 · 64 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The narrow spectral bandwith (0.4 \AA{}) of a Nd-glass laser was tuned over a range of 40 \AA{} to populate selectively the $6f$ level of cesium atoms. The resulting variation of the multiphoton ionization probability was investigated as a function of the laser wavelength.

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