INTERACTION OF CHARGES PRODUCED BY THE FOCUSING OF LASER-RADIATION INTO LOW-PRESSURE GAS

This review article is devoted to theoretical and experimental investigations of the interaction of Charges Produced in the focal volume of laser radiation. Different theoretical approaches are discussed, dealing with both the description of the interaction process and the influence of the process on the magnitudes recorded in the experiments on multiphoton ionization of atoms and molecules, such as ion yield, ion time of flight to the detector, electron current, and angular and energy electron distributions. The experimental data are shown to be in rather good agreement with theoretical description.