Observation of ionization enhancement in two-color circularly polarized laser fields
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Christopher A. Mancuso,1 Kevin M. Dorney,1 Daniel D. Hickstein,1 Jan L. Chaloupka,2 Xiao-Min Tong,3 Jennifer L. Ellis,1 Henry C. Kapteyn,1 and Margaret M. Murnane1 1JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder and NIST, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 80639, USA 3Center for Computational Sciences and Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan (Received 6 January 2017; published 2 August 2017)
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