Ionization and excitation of the excited hydrogen atom in strong circularly polarized laser fields

J. H. Bauer, Francisca Mota-Furtado, Patrick F. O'Mahony +2

In the recent work of Herath et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043004 (2012)] the first experimental observation of a dependence of strong-field ionization rate on the sign of the magn…