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

This review article is devoted to theoretical and experimental investi gations of the interaction of Charges Produced in the focal volume of laser radiation. Different theoretical approaches are discussed, deali ng with both the description of the interaction process and the influe nce of the process on the magnitudes recorded in the experiments on mu ltiphoton ionization of atoms and molecules, such as ion yield, ion ti me of flight to the detector, electron current, and angular and energy electron distributions. The experimental data are shown to be in rath er good agreement with theoretical description.