@article{528, keywords = {non-Palaiseau, paper}, author = {G BANDARAGE and Alfred Maquet and T MENIS and Richard Taïeb and Valérie Véniard and J COOPER}, title = {HARMONIC-GENERATION BY LASER-DRIVEN CLASSICAL HYDROGEN-ATOMS}, abstract = {We present the results of our investigations of the dynamics of a classical hydrogen atom submitted to an intense classical radiation field with a relatively low frequency as compared to the characteristic Kepler frequency of the atomic system. We discuss here the harmonic spectra which can be deduced from a Fourier analysis of the time evolution of the strongly driven atomic dipole, associated either with a single trajectory or with ensembles of trajectories evolving from an initial microcanonical distribution. The spectra obtained from ensemble-averaged atomic dipoles qualitatively reproduce the main features of those recently observed in experiments and allow, in particular, discussion of the occurrence of a plateau in the distribution of harmonic intensities as a function of their order. The possible competition between harmonic generation and multiphoton ionization, which both take place in the same laser-intensity range, is also discussed.}, year = {1992}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW A}, volume = {46}, number = {1}, pages = {380-390}, month = {JUL 1}, issn = {1050-2947}, }