AC Electric Field
The ionization rate of an hydrogen atom in an alternating electric field, like that of a laser, can be treated, in the appropriate limit, as the DC ionization rate averaged over a single period of the electric fields oscillation. This models was proposed by Keldysh and then later expanded to hydrogen-like atom by A.D.K..
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