强场飞秒激光作用于原子时，原子中的电子除了发生多光子电离、隧穿电离等过程外，还有很大的概率处于高激发态。这种高激发态的原子在超强超短激光场中非常稳定，并且与强场中的其它许多现象密切相关，例如，中性粒子加速、多光子拉比振荡、近阈值谐波辐射等，因此近十几年来是强场超快物理领域的研究热点之一。在这些研究中，强激光场中里德堡原子的产生机制、激光对里德堡态的调控、里德堡态强场电离及稳定性等，是关注的主要问题。本文将概述强激光驱动的里德堡态的产生机制，包括多光子共振激发，受挫隧穿电离等。重点介绍强激光场驱动的里德堡态原子激发过程中的多种干涉现象。这些干涉现象提供了里德堡原子强场激发的动态过程信息。同时，还将介绍激发态原子在强激光场中的电离过程，特别是圆偏光驱动的里德堡原子电离的圆二色性。

Using the classical-trajectory Monte Carlo model, we have theoretically studied the angular momentum distribution of frustrated tunneling ionization (FTI) of atoms in strong laser fields. Our results show that the angular momentum distribution of the FTI events exhibits a double-hump structure. With this classical model, we back traced the tunneling coordinates, i.e., the tunneling time and initial transverse momentum at tunneling ionization. It is shown that for the events tunneling ionized at the rising edge of the electric field, the final angular momentum exhibits a strong dependence on the initial transverse momentum at tunneling. While for the events ionized at the falling edge, there is a relatively harder recollision between the returning electron and the parent ion, leading to the angular momentum losing the correlation with the initial transverse momentum. Our study suggests that the angular momentum of the FTI events could be manipulated by controlling the initial coordinates of the tunneling ionization.