Anticorrelated Electrons From High-Intensity Nonsequential Double Ionization of Atoms

S. L. Haan, Z. S. Smith, K. N. Shomsky, P. W. Plantinga, T. L. Atallah

Abstract

The nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) yield and final electron-electon correlation are examined for a laser wavelength of 800 nm over a wide range of laser intensities, using three-dimensional fully classical models. It is shown that in the transition region between NSDI and sequential ionization, turn-on stage recollisions can lead to having a majority of anticorrelated (back-to-back) electron pairs.