Results are reported of a study of the emission performance of a slit type liquid caesium field ion source which oriqinally was developed by the European Space Research and Technology Centre a s an ion thruster for electric space propulsion. The emission site distribution and the ion beam divergence are examined a s a function of the wetting properties at the emitter slit edge.

We present calculations of the double ionization of H2 induced by an intense attosecond laser pulse at a photon energy of 40 eV using the time-dependent close-coupling method within the fixed nuclei approximation. We focus on two-photon absorption processes and examine how the response of the ejected electrons, in particular the singleand the double-energy differential probabilities, is affecte...

A flowing afterglow discharge ion source with NaF vaporized into the flow produces the expected stable anions F-(NaF),, as well as the unusual species Na(NaF); and (NaF); (n < 17). The dominance of (NaF); suggests that it has a particularly stable structure. A fixed-frequency laser has been used to photodetach electrons from mass-selected ion beams extracted from the flowing afterglow. Photoele...

Propagation in l inear planar wa vegui des is a wel l-known pro blem , whereas pro pagati on in nonl inear waveguides wa s considered onl y in parti cular cases. Tha t is the caseof the nonl inear waveguide wi th a l inear Ùlm on a nonl inear substra te [1], then the l inear Ùlm surro unded by the nonl inear substra te and cover [2{ 7], the nonl inear Ùlm surro unded by l inear isotro pi c m ed...

In this article the work of the JYFL ion source group will be presented. New bremsstrahlung measurements were carried out in order to compare the results with different electron heating models. Especially attention was paid to study the effect of different heating parameters on the evolution of bremsstrahlung energy. A project to obtain new information about the ion temperatures and their time ...

The first absolute se ,3ed measurements, by Lahmam-Bennani et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 3548 (1999)], have been recently approximately reproduced by Berakdar [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4036 (2000)] and supported by Jones and Madison [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073201 (2003)], but with widely differing conclusions. The former indirectly implied that the Born-CCC-based calculations of Kheifets et al. [J. Phys. ...