Abstract

Substantial effort is now being invested in the development of high-frequency lasers operated at high intensities. A nonperturbative theory was developed to deal with atoms placed in such fields.^1,2 We present here first a highly accurate calculation of the structure of atomic hydrogen placed in a monochromatic high-frequency ω laser field of linear polarization and arbitrary intensity l. It has been shown^1,2 that in these circumstances the time-dependent Schrodinger equation reduces in the high-frequency limit to a time-independent Schrodinger equation containing a dressed potential V₀^lin(α₀, r), where α₀= I^1/2ω⁻² a.u.

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