Abstract

At the soft-x-ray free-electron laser FLASH in Hamburg, we have studied multiphoton ionization on neon and helium by ion mass-to-charge spectroscopy. The experiments were performed in a focused beam at 42.8 and $38.4\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$ photon energy and irradiance levels up to ${10}^{14}\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{W}∕{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$. Direct, sequential, and resonant two-, three-, and four-photon excitations were investigated by quantitative measurements as a function of the absolute photon intensity. The atomic and ionic photoionization cross sections derived indicate a clear dominance of sequential compared to direct multiphoton processes.

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