Abstract
Ac Stark splitting and ionization broadening of atomic Rydberg levels in a strong electromagnetic field are described. The quasi-energy atomic spectrum is shown to consist of a quasi-continuum plus two sets of narrow quasi-energy levels: weakly split and broadened almost field-free levels and strongly perturbed levels, whose width is a decreasing function of the field strength amplitude. The strong-field asymptotics of the photoelectron spectrum and of the time-dependent total photoionization probability are described. The photoelectron spectrum is shown to have a multipeak structure, and the shape of each peak is shown to be different from the Lorenz shape found earlier. This effect is explained by the contribution of the quasi-continuous quasi-energy spectrum. The same reason explains a partially nonexponential time dependence of the total photoionization probability.
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