The ratio of circular to linear polarization cross sections for multiphoton ionization of hydrogen by intense electromagnetic fields is obtained. A cross over in dominance is seen to occur at large photon number; but this is offset by the cross section then being many order of magnitude smaller than that for the dominant process.
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