A detailed and precise study of the ionization rates of H+2in intense laser fields

Ionization of the hydrogen molecular ion under linearly polarized intense laser fields is simulated by direct solution of the fixed-nuclei time-dependent Schrodinger equation for λ = 790 nm and I = 1 × 1014 W cm−2. Different adaptive grids used in this study produced very similar results. The results are in agreement with, and thus support, the results of recent calculations carried out by other researchers. Detailed structure of the ionization rates is presented which has not been reported so far in the literature. The use of the virtual detector method resulted in more details of the ionization rates of the hydrogen ion molecule and hydrogen atom. This method especially allowed a simultaneous detection of the parallel and perpendicular components of the ionization rates.