TY - JOUR KW - high-order harmonic generation KW - ionization KW - multiphoton absorbtion AU - J. Venzke AU - Ran Reiff AU - Z. Xue AU - Agnieszka Jaron-Becker AU - Andreas Becker AB - We study the excitation to Rydberg states in the interaction of the hydrogen atom with a short, strong laser pulse. Utilizing solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation we find that the parity of the populated angular momentum states agrees with the selection rules for multiphoton resonant absorption at low intensities, if the pulse length is not too short. In contrast, the parity effect cannot be observed for ultrashort pulses as well as for long pulses at high intensities. We further identify signatures of the population in the excited states via the line emissions from the populated np states after the end of the pulse exhibiting the parity effect. BT - Physical Review A DA - 2018-10 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.043434 N2 - We study the excitation to Rydberg states in the interaction of the hydrogen atom with a short, strong laser pulse. Utilizing solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation we find that the parity of the populated angular momentum states agrees with the selection rules for multiphoton resonant absorption at low intensities, if the pulse length is not too short. In contrast, the parity effect cannot be observed for ultrashort pulses as well as for long pulses at high intensities. We further identify signatures of the population in the excited states via the line emissions from the populated np states after the end of the pulse exhibiting the parity effect. PY - 2018 EP - 043434 T2 - Physical Review A TI - Angular momentum distribution in Rydberg states excited by a strong laser pulse UR - https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.043434 VL - 98 SN - 2469-9926 ER -