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Energy spectra of electrons emitted from laser irradiated low-density gas and the correspondence principle of electromagnetic interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

B.W. Boreham ,
H. Hora  and
H. Hora
B.W. Boreham
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia
H. Hora
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia
H. Hora
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033 Australia
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Abstract

It is expected (Hora & Handel 1987) that the energy spectra of electrons emitted from laserirradiated atoms in low-density gases would be fundamentally different for laser intensities above and below the threshold of a correspondence principle. Below such a threshold, the emission is a quantum mechanical interaction while, in contrast, above the threshold it is a classical process. Both of our earlier experiments (Boreham & Hora 1979; Boreham & Luther-Davies 1979) and those of several others, including some very recent results (Monot et al. 1993) confirm—after some controversy—the existence of such a correspondence principle. Details are discussed.

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 71 - 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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