Interference Effects between Different Optical Harmonics
- 23 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (8), 543-546
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.543
Abstract
It is shown that destructive interference between two coherent excitation pathways from different optical harmonics, a fundamental and a third harmonic, inhibits resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization. Once the role of the third harmonic is realized, the interference follows naturally from simple considerations of Fermi's "golden rule" and Maxwell's equations.Keywords
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